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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
Applications of a numerical model for simulating unsteady flow in dendritic or interconnected open-channel networks are presented to demonstrate the model's potential for addressing environmental problems and formulating engineering decisions in water-resources investigations. The model is computationally robust and readily adaptable to a broad spectrum of hydraulic conditions and open-channel configurations. The four-point, implicit, finite difference model has been implemented on numerous open-channel reaches and networks in support of various water-resources investigations conducted within the U.S. Geological Survey. In this paper, network applications of the model to a residential canal system in Cape Coral, Florida; to a distributary system of channels in the Knik-Matanuska Rivers near Cook Inlet, Alaska; and to the tidal Potomac River and its tributaries near Washington, D.C., are described.
Comments
Published in Hydraulic Engineering: Saving a Threatened Resource—In Search of Solutions: Proceedings of the Hydraulic Engineering sessions at Water Forum ’92. Baltimore, Maryland, August 2–6, 1992. Published by American Society of Civil Engineers.