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Kategorie Textpublikation
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DOI 10.1002/wrcr.20442
Titel (primär) Coupled 3-D stream flow and hyporheic flow model under varying stream and ambient groundwater flow conditions in a pool-riffle system
Autor Trauth, N.; Schmidt, C.; Maier, U.; Vieweg, M. ORCID logo ; Fleckenstein, J.H.
Quelle Water Resources Research
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
Department HDG
Band/Volume 49
Heft 9
Seite von 5834
Seite bis 5850
Sprache englisch
Keywords hyporheic exchange; computational fluid dynamics; groundwater-surface water exchange; pool-riffle; residence times; undular hydraulic jump
UFZ Querschnittsthemen TERENO; RU2;
Abstract Exchange of water and solutes across the stream-sediment interface is an important control for biogeochemical transformations in the hyporheic zone (HZ). In this paper, we investigate the interplay between turbulent stream flow and HZ flow in pool-riffle streams under various ambient groundwater flow conditions. Streambed pressures, derived from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model, are assigned at the top of the groundwater model, and fluxes at the bottom of the groundwater model domain represent losing and gaining conditions. Simulations for different Reynolds numbers (Re) and pool-riffle morphologies are performed. Results show increasing hyporheic exchange flows (m3/d) for larger Re and a concurrent decrease in residence time (RT). Losing and gaining conditions were found to significantly affect the hyporheic flow field and diminish its spatial extent as well as rates of hyporheic exchange flow. The fraction of stream water circulating through the hyporheic zone is in the range of 1 × 10−5 to 1 × 10−6 per meter stream length, decreasing with increasing discharge. Complex distributions of pressure across the streambed cause significant lateral hyporheic flow components with a mean lateral travel distance of 20% of the longitudinal flow paths length. We found that the relationship between pool-riffle height and hyporheic exchange flow is characterized by a threshold in pool-riffle amplitude, beyond which hyporheic exchange flow becomes independent of riffle height. Hyporheic residence time distributions (RTD) are log-normally distributed with medians ranging between 0.7 and 19 h.
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Trauth, N., Schmidt, C., Maier, U., Vieweg, M., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2013):
Coupled 3-D stream flow and hyporheic flow model under varying stream and ambient groundwater flow conditions in a pool-riffle system
Water Resour. Res. 49 (9), 5834 - 5850 10.1002/wrcr.20442