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Investigation of Flood Routing
Methods in Natural Waterways

Reza Barati

Sep. 2010

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 The University of Sistan & Baluchestan
Graduate School

The Dissertation of M.Sc. in Civil Engineering

Title:

Investigation of Flood Routing

Methods in Natural Waterways

Supervisor:
Dr. Gholamhossein Akbari

Advisor:
Dr. Ailreza Hosseinnezhad

Research by:
Reza Barati

Sep. 2010

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ABSTRACT

Flood Routing is a mathematical procedure for predicting the changing

magnitude, Speed and shape of a flood wave as a function of time at one or more
points along a Watercourse. When a flood wave moves downstream a river, the
wave configuration will be modified due to channel irregularities and roughness.
Flood routing is important in the design of flood protection measures, to estimate
how the proposed measures will affect the behavior of flood waves in rivers, so
that adequate protection and economic solutions may be found. Flood routing
procedures may be classified as either hydrological or hydraulics. Hydrological
methods use the principle of continuity and a relationship between discharge and
the temporary storage of excess volumes of water during the flood period.
Hydraulic methods of routing involve the numerical solutions of the convective
diffusion equations, the one dimensional Saint Venant equations of gradually
varied unsteady flow in open channels. In present research, the examination of the
several hydraulic, hydrologic methods, have been proceeded for several rivers
data, compared with a written hand program in MATLAB software analysis. Also,
a comparison was made between the results of various methods, using statistical
analysis for river data employed. Furthermore, several hydraulic methods are
compared through a series of numerical experiments that covered varied channel
bed slopes, varied roughness coefficient and varied unsteady flow with different
hydrograph geometric shapes. The results indicated that the developed methods
generally provided reasonable output compared with the observed measured
hydrologic data provided.

Keywords: Flood Routing – Hydraulic and Hydrologic Models – Natural

Rivers – Numerical Experiments

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Please note:
This dissertation was written in Persian language. However, the following
papers are available:
I. Akbari G. H, Nezhad A. H, Barati R (2012). Developing a model for
analysis of uncertainties in prediction of floods. Journal of Advanced
Research, 3(1): 73–79.
II. Akbari G. H, Barati R (2012). Comprehensive analysis of flooding in
unmanaged catchments. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-
Water Management, 165(4): 229-238.
III. Barati R, Rahimi S, Akbari G. H (2012). An analysis of the dynamic
wave model for flood routing in natural rivers. Water Science and
Engineering, 5(3): 243-258.
IV. Barati R, Akbari G. H, Rahimi S (2013). Flood Routing of an
Unmanaged River Basin Using Muskingum–Cunge Model; Field Application
and Numerical Experiments, Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research.

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