分汊河道主支汊交替主导因子的转换模拟

进口水流条件及河道周界特征的改变是促使分汊河道主支汊交替的两大主要因素,不同类型的汊道对两者敏感性存在差异,辨析不同汊道主支汊交替的主导因素是预测汊道演变的前提。以长江中游分汊河道为参考,通过调整进口水流动力轴线走向及两汊的长度比设置了30种概化方案,采用平面二维水沙数学模型探讨上述两种因素对主支汊交替的影响。结论表明:两汊长度比存在一个临界值,当汊长比低于此临界值时,进口主流动力轴线的偏移是影响主、支汊交替的主要动力因素;超过此临界值后,进口水流条件变化对汊道分流格局的影响将会明显减弱,影响主支汊交替的主导因子将转换为汊道间的阻力对比关系;通过概化计算得到此临界值约为1.5。     

分汊河道主支汊交替主导因子的转换模拟

进口水流条件及河道周界特征的改变是促使分汊河道主支汊交替的两大主要因素，不同类型的汊道对两者敏感性存在差异，辨析不同汊道主支汊交替的主导因素是预测汊道演变的前提。以长江中游分汊河道为参考，通过调整进口水流动力轴线走向及两汊的长度比设置了30种概化方案，采用平面二维水沙数学模型探讨上述两种因素对主支汊交替的影响。结论表明：两汊长度比存在一个临界值，当汊长比低于此临界值时，进口主流动力轴线的偏移是影响主、支汊交替的主要动力因素；超过此临界值后，进口水流条件变化对汊道分流格局的影响将会明显减弱，影响主支汊交替的主导因子将转换为汊道间的阻力对比关系；通过概化计算得到此临界值约为1.5。     

长江河口区上段水、悬沙通量及其对北支演化的意义

2007年9月在长江河口3条控制断面的全潮观测结果表明,长江口南支均以落潮流和落潮输沙占优,而北支大、小潮期间的水沙输运特征迥异;其特征与长江径流、河口地形地貌特征密切相关.小潮期间,长江口北支以落潮流占优;大潮期间,则以涨潮流占优,且悬沙输运率比小潮期间增大一个数量级.分析结果进一步表明,从1958年至今,长江口北支的分流比呈下降的趋势,已由11.8％降至目前的1.9％;长江口北支也由早期的悬沙输入(与径流方向相反)通道变为输出通道,目前其分沙比仍达6.4％ ～7.9％左右.总体上,分流分沙比呈显著减小趋势,这是长江口北支萎缩的重要特征之一.此外,北支分沙比显著大于分流比,将可能造成北支的进一步淤积.     

汊道型河道水面线及两汊分流量计算

汊道型河道是平原区常见的一种河床形态,研究汊型河道的水面线及分流比是在汊型河道上设计交叉建筑物的必要依据。以沙河为例,采用“９６．８”洪水调查资料,对汊道型河道的水面线及两汊分流量进行了研究,探讨了汊道型河道水面线及分流比的计算方法,介绍了各有关要素的确定。     

三峡水库下游分汊河道滩槽调整及其对水文过程的响应

为探究大型水利枢纽影响下分汊河道演变特征及其驱动机制,根据三峡水库下游的实测水文和地形资料,基于动态分流比对分汊河道进行了类别划分,在此基础上研究了主汊、支汊与洲头心滩的调整规律及其对水文过程的响应。结果表明:① 三峡水库蓄水后,坝下游分汊河道的洲头低滩均呈现萎缩,而汊河则表现为"主长支消"和"主消支长"并存的分异性规律;② 基于动态分流比的分汊河道类别划分方法,上述演变差异可归纳为枯水倾向汊河发展速率大于洪水倾向汊河的规律,且2008年之后洪水倾向汊河基本表现为淤积特征;③ 水文过程中洪水削减、中水持续时间增长是滩槽调整的驱动因素,汊河冲淤均是向着主支汊格局更加稳定的方向进行,并与流量变差系数减小的水文过程相适应。     

历史时期长江中游河道演变与洪灾发展的规律

历史时期,长江中游的河道在科氏力、掀斜构造活动的影响下,长期南移。在主泓南移、气候由湿变干、分汊淤浅的背景下,大量人口由北方迁入,促使沿长江主泓的围堤迅速发展。原先多汊分流的河道,演变为被围堤约束的狭窄河道。水沙集中于狭窄的堤围河道,洪峰难以调节,泥沙淤高河床,形成水涨堤高、堤高水涨的恶性循环。宋末至明代,是长江中游围堤基本成型与完善,也是洪水位不断抬升,洪灾不断加剧的时期,说明洪灾加剧与围堤密不可分。现有的防洪方针,延续了历史上"抗拒洪水"的思路,没有体现"与洪水共处"的原则,需要进行反思。建议采取"疏导为本"的防洪方针,恢复与增加长江中游分流汊道,扩大江河行洪能力,分散泥沙淤积,以达到可持续治洪的目的。     

卵石沙洲发育与冲刷试验

沙洲是塑造分汊型河道最重要的形态因子,其发育与蚀退由于上游来水来沙变化呈现冲淤交替,从而影响分汊河道输水输沙平衡.通过单个卵石沙洲的淤积和冲刷试验,揭示不同加沙速率、粒径和来流量条件下,沙洲淤积和冲刷规律,并建立简化理论模型分析沙洲淤积速率.结果表明,4组加沙试验中,分流点后出现明显淤积下延至洲头,左汊和右汊成为输沙通道,洲尾中心线两侧的左右汊道有泥沙淤积,洲尾未出现淤积.7组清水冲刷试验中,洲头最先承受冲刷和蚀退,并沿洲体冲刷延伸,洲头冲刷的泥沙沿左右汊水流带到下游,洲尾未出现明显冲刷.卵石沙洲以洲头淤积为主导发育模式,泥沙粒径、洲头坡角和分流角是决定淤积速率的关键因子.     

长江中游瓦口子至马家咀河段二维水沙数学模型

针对长江中游瓦口子至马家咀河段(弯曲分汊河段)的水沙运动特点,给出了二维水沙数学模型尤其是推移质不平衡输沙计算的模式,主要包括推移质不平衡输沙方程、床沙级配方程、河床变形方程;对模型中的几个关键问题提出了处理方法,如非均匀沙起动及输移规律、床面混合层厚度等.利用大量的水流及河床变形资料,率定了模型的一些参数,进行了水面线、流速分布及河床变形的详细验证.在此基础上,根据设计部门提供的进出口水沙边界条件,预测了三峡工程蓄水初期该河段的冲淤过程与分布及航道条件的变化.     

长江口深水航道治理工程实施后南北槽分汊段河床演变

利用1998-2006年的水深测图和南北槽分流、分沙比测量资料,研究了长江口深水航道治理工程实施后南、北槽分流比的变化过程、原因及其与分汊口河床冲淤演变的关系。结果表明,随着长江口深水航道治理工程的实施,北槽落潮分流比总体呈减小的趋势,南槽落潮分流比呈增加的趋势。伴随着南、北槽落潮分流比的南增、北减,南槽进口段(长约18 km)的主槽发生了冲刷,北槽进口段(长约12 km)的主槽发生了淤积,南、北槽进口段河槽总过水断面面积呈下降趋势。北槽落潮分流比与北槽河槽总容积、南北槽落潮分流比与各自进口段的河槽断面平均水深之间均具有较好的相关性,据此,预测了未来南、北槽的落潮分流比和进口段河槽冲淤的平衡量值。     

曲流串沟型江心洲形成机制与演化探讨

曲流串沟型江心洲是现代河流水利学研究关注的重要河流要素,不同于曲流河点坝和辫状河心滩,但在油气储层沉积学研究中鲜有关注。选取现代松花江典型河段,开展基于水动力学的沉积数值模拟,恢复曲流串沟型江心洲的演化过程,建立了曲流串沟型江心洲演化模式。研究结果表明:1）洪水期曲流河发生漫滩冲刷,串沟发育扩张,截弯取直,形成分汊河道及江心洲地貌;2）分汊偏移角、相对梯度优势可用于预测短期汊道存在的稳定性;3）串沟型江心洲形成于曲流点坝残余沉积之上,发育洲头侵蚀、洲尾加积、翼部双侧积,但垂向加积主要发育在顶部,不构成沉积主体结构。通过上述研究建立了曲流江心洲沉积模式,揭示了曲流河江心洲内部结构及分汊河道水动力特征,对现代河流治理和地下河流沉积储层刻画有指导意义。     

分汊河流江心洲洲头冲淤概化模型

分汊河流的江心洲洲头是分汊河段分水分沙和泥沙冲淤的动态区域,其冲淤过程受来水来沙和地形条件变化呈现冲淤交替。通过几何概化洲头的浅滩逆坡和侧向顺坡,考虑逆坡促淤和顺坡分沙作用,建立洲头浅滩的推移质冲淤的概化模型,推导洲头由淤积转向冲刷的临界流量表达式。上游来流量增加,洲头淤积速率先增加到最大值后逐渐减少,直至达到临界流量,再转向冲刷。洲头淤积速率与上游水面纵比降和床沙粒径成正比,与浅滩逆坡、侧向水面比降与顺坡成反比。若其他条件相同,洲头浅滩形状越不对称和上游来沙量越小,越有利于冲刷。模型预测武汉河段天兴洲的临界流量范围与水文观测值较为接近,对其出现超过某个大临界流量仍出现淤积的特殊性,给出的新解释是天兴洲洲头的整治工程使得在大流量条件下洲头抵抗冲刷和阻挡作用促进泥沙淤积。     

Downstream grain‐size changes associated with a transition from single channel to anabranching

Downstream variation in grain size associated with changes in river pattern is a topic that interests multiple disciplines. How grain size varies between adjacent reaches with strongly contrasting river pattern is an outstanding question. This study presents a combined field and numerical modelling investigation of a river with a downstream planform change from single channel to anabranching, where the planform is controlled by a change in underlying lithology. This approach enabled exploration of the controls on sedimentology in a river for which there is very limited opportunity to collect flow and sediment transport data. This study shows that the surficial grain size decreases as a result of the downstream change in planform. This is because of a decrease in flow velocity and shear stress associated with a decrease in channel depth related to the planform change. Channel geometries in both the field and modelling data fit into distinct groups based on channel depth, the deepest being the single channel reach and the shallowest being the anabranching. This downstream reduction in channel dimension (depth) is caused because the total discharge is split from one channel into multiple channels. The coarsest grain sizes (cobble) are deposited at the terminus of the single channel and in the distributary channels; anabranching channels contain sand‐size sediments. This study shows that, in a transition from single channel to anabranching, the channel dimensions decrease as the number of channels increases, resulting in a decrease in bed shear stress and the fining of bed material downstream.     

三峡工程蓄水运用以来水库排沙效果

针对三峡水库蓄水运用以来排沙比问题,在深入研究三峡水库不同蓄水运用阶段水库排沙效果的基础上,着重研究各年年内蓄水排沙过程,系统地分析水库排沙效果的影响因素。结果表明:库区河道特性、入库水沙条件以及坝前水位的高低是水库排沙比变化的主要影响因素。2003年6月~2010年12月,水库排沙比为26.1%。水库排沙主要集中在汛期5~10月,排沙比为29.0%。尤其是在洪峰期间,库区水流流速较大,水流挟沙能力强,进入水库的泥沙大部分能输移到坝前,水库排沙比较大,当入库流量大于30000m³/s时,水库最大排沙比可达81.0%。此外,随着汛期坝前水位的抬高,水库排沙效果有所减弱,尤其是粗颗粒泥沙的多少也很大程度上影响水库排沙效果,水流的挟沙能力随着水流流速的减小而减小,粗颗粒泥沙的排沙比随之发生较全沙更为明显的减小。     

冲积河流泥沙输移幂律函数指数变化规律

冲积河流泥沙输移幂律函数关系与不平衡输沙理论是对河道不平衡输沙同一物理现象的不同描述,两者既有区别也有联系。比较研究发现:对于恒定均匀流不平衡输沙过程,当输沙位于近平衡态时两者含沙量导函数表达式具有一阶近似等价性,当输沙远离平衡态时前者含沙量导函数中隐含考虑有泥沙恢复饱和系数的变化。基于两者等价性,推导建立了幂律函数指数计算表达式,表明指数随泥沙沉速、单宽流量和沿程距离而变化,且随着输移距离的增大呈指数衰减。基于前者含沙量导函数表达式结构特点,分析建立了相应泥沙恢复饱和系数变化的计算表达式。综合以上成果,改进提出了一种变幂指数的泥沙输移幂律函数计算模型。对库里·阿雷克沉沙池沿程断面输沙指数及含沙量计算结果表明,不同距离过水断面输沙指数的变化规律是合理的,含沙量计算值与实测值变化趋势基本符合。     

Controls on channel deposits of highly variable rivers: Comparing hydrology and event deposits in the Burdekin River,Australia

Discharge event frequency, magnitude and duration all control river channel morphology and sedimentary architecture. Uncertainty persists as to whether alluvial deposits in the rock record are a time-averaged amalgam from all discharge events, or a biased record of larger events. This paper investigates the controls on channel deposit character and subsurface stratigraphic architecture in a river with seasonal discharge and very high inter-annual variability, the Burdekin River of north-east Australia. In such rivers, most sediment movement is restricted to a few days each year and at other times little sediment moves. However, the maximum discharge magnitude does not directly correlate with the amount of morphological change and some big events do not produce large deposits. The Burdekin channel deposits consist of five main depositional elements: (i) unit bars; (ii) vegetation-generated bars; (iii) gravel sheets and lags; (iv) antidune trains; and (v) sand sheets. The proportions of each depositional element preserved in the deposits depend on the history of successive large discharge events, their duration and the rate at which they wane. Events with similar peak magnitude but different rate of decline preserve different event deposits. The high intra-annual and inter-annual discharge variability and rapid rate of stage change make it likely that small to moderate-scale bed morphology will be in disequilibrium with flow conditions most of the time. Consequently, dune and unit bar size and cross-bed set thickness are not good indicators of event or channel size. Antidunes may be more useful as indicators of flow conditions at the time they formed. Rivers with very high coefficient of variance of maximum discharge, such as the Burdekin, form distinctive channel sediment bodies. However, the component parts are such that, if they are examined in isolation, they could lead to misleading interpretation of the nature of the depositional environment if conventional interpretations are used.     

Prediction of sediment yield at storm period in Northwest Algeria

This paper studies the hydrodynamics and variability of stream flow and sediment yield in Wadi El Hammam, located in the semi-arid region of Algeria. In this location, hysteresis effects are obvious especially during high discharge periods. The sediment concentration and load maxima go several months before discharge maxima, while decreased sediment concentrations are noticed during the discharge peaks. In order to explain these phenomena, we have adopted a methodology that consists of finding a simple regression model capable of explaining the sediment load as a function of the water discharge measured at gauging stations of three rivers at various scales, e.g., annual and seasonal. Suspended sediment concentrations are measured during a 22-year period (1986/1987–2007/2008). The results have shown that the power model explains the greatest part of the variance (80%). The changes in sediment availability result in so-called hysteresis effects. In this work, we have described different loops: clockwise or positive hysteresis loops and anti- or counter-clockwise hysteresis loops. The analysis of the seasonal sediment yields has shown that the autumn season contributes a large proportion of the annual sediment yield (62%).     

Effects of sheet flow rate and slope gradient on sediment load

Sheet erosion is known as one of the most important forms of erosion, particularly in agricultural land. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of flow rate and slope gradient on runoff and sediment discharges in two different soils. Experiments were conducted using a tilting flume facility with the test area of 0.2?×?1.0 m. Overall, 24 experiments on two soils (clay loam and sandy clay loam textures) including six flow rates (75, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 ml/s) and two slope gradients (1.5 and 2 %) were performed. The selected flow rates and flume slopes were generated to simulate sheet erosion. The results showed that for both soils and slopes, unit flow discharge (q) and sediment concentration increased with increasing flow rate; however, the effect of slope gradient on flow discharge depends on soil type. In addition, sandy clay loam exhibited higher values of q and sediment concentration and consequently, it showed greater amounts of sediment load. At the start of event, sediment concentration was high but it decreased to approach a steady state. In addition, the time needed to reach a steady state condition was shorter for sandy clay loam than that for clay loam soil and in lower flow rates than higher flow rates. For each soil and slope, there was a direct relationship between sediment load and flow rate. The result implied that the effect of slope gradient on sediment load was almost greater in sandy clay loam soil than clay loam soil. Moreover, the differences between sediment loads of two soils are enlarged at slope 2 %.     

Numerical Study of the Circulation and Sediment Transport in the Mahanadi Estuary

The Mahanadi River is one of the largest river systems in the east coast of Indiaand the estuary drains and communicates with the Bay of Bengal. The seasonallyvarying fresh water river discharge and the intrusion of salt water from the baydepend on the flow associated with the semi-diurnal component of the astronomicaltide (dominated by M₂ component). A numerical model has been developed tosimulate and study the salinity structure, velocity profile, flow and circulation patternand have been compared with the observed data. A reasonably good agreement isnoticed between the model simulations and the observations. The model result hasbeen utilised to compute sediment load transport to the estuary channel over a tidalcycle as well as on a monthly time scale. The sediment load transport owing to monthlyclimatological rainfall is discussed and it is inferred that a dynamic equilibrium existson a long-term over good/bad monsoons.     

The effect of flood intermittency on bifurcations in fluviodeltaic systems: Experiment and theory

The dimensions and organization of deltaic islands and channels dictate delta morphology. This study presents experimental results modelling deposition at a river mouth and flow bifurcation around delta islands. Mouth bar formation and channel bifurcation is achieved in a laboratory setting by alternating input of suspended load transport and bedload transport. These two modes of transport produce two characteristic deposits with different advection lengths. Suspended load transport creates a steep deposit far from the inlet, while bedload creates a low angle, levéed deposit near the inlet. This study found that flow bifurcations occur where the proximal and distal deposits encroach on one another; and determined that there is a relationship between the frequency of suspended load transport and the length to channel bifurcation. Frequent flooding causes shorter length to bifurcations, whereas infrequent flooding causes greater length to bifurcations. This work overturns the hitherto understood mechanism of bifurcation location as a function of only high-transport conditions. Instead, the interactions between the sediment transport and deposition from normal flow and large-scale flooding events dictate delta island morphology.