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Hydrologic Routing Techniques Explained

This document discusses hydrologic routing techniques used to predict changes in the shape of a hydrograph as water moves through rivers and reservoirs. Key points include: 1) Hydrologic routing models streamflow and the movement of flood waves through channels and reservoirs. 2) Storage-elevation curves are used to compute storage in reservoirs based on topographic maps. 3) Channel routing is complicated by variable storage that depends on both outflow and water elevation.

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Hydrologic Routing Techniques Explained

This document discusses hydrologic routing techniques used to predict changes in the shape of a hydrograph as water moves through rivers and reservoirs. Key points include: 1) Hydrologic routing models streamflow and the movement of flood waves through channels and reservoirs. 2) Storage-elevation curves are used to compute storage in reservoirs based on topographic maps. 3) Channel routing is complicated by variable storage that depends on both outflow and water elevation.

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CHAPTER 9

HYDROLOGIC
ROUTING
■ Hydrologic Routing
■ - is a technique used to predict the changes in shape of
a hydrograph as a water moves through a river or a
reservoir.
■ Streamflow
■ - is a general term applied to methods used to predict
unsteady flow in streams.
9-1 Wave Movement

■ Monoclinal Rising Wave


– One of the simplest wave forms in a uniform channel.
– Consists of an initial steady flow, a period of uniformly
increasing flow, and a continuing steady flow at the
higher rate.
9-2 Waves in Natural Channels

Channels
- is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path
of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid, most commonly
the confine of a river, river delta or strait.
9-4 Determination of Storage

■ Storage- Elevation Curves


– Are usually computed by planimetering the area
enclosed within successive contours on a topographic
map.

Level Water Surface


Usually assumed, a condition which is satisfied in most
reservoirs.
9-5 Treatment of Local Inflow

■ Local inflow
– One of the most annoying problems in flood routing.
– Which enters the reach between the inflow and outflow
stations.
9-6 Reservoir Routing

■ Reservoir
– In which the discharge is a function of water-surface
elevation offers the simplest of all routing situations.
– May have ungated sluiceways and/or an uncontrolled
spillway.
9-7 Routing in River Channels
■ Routing in River Channels
– Is complicated by the fact that the storage is not a
function of outflow alone.

Resulting Curve
- is usually a wide loop indicating greater storage for a
given outflow during rising stages than during falling.

Prism Storage
- the storage beneath a line parallel to the streambed
9-8 Channel Routing: Analytical
Methods
■ Storage Constant
– Is the ratio of storage to discharge and has the
dimension of time.
– It is approximately equal to the travel time through the
reach and in the absence of better data is sometimes
estimated this way.
9-11 Gage Relations
■ Gage Relations
– Are graphs correlating an observed stage or discharge
at a downstream station.
– Most effective when the local inflow is relatively small
compared with the main-stream inflow.
– Most useful on large streams where local inflow is small
with respect to main stream flow ad rates of change of
flow are relatively low.
■ Stage Relation and Stage Routing
– Are useful when dealing with streams for which
discharge data are not available. It should be
emphasized that any change in the channel, either
natural or artificial, may result in changes in the stage-
discharge and stage-storage relationships for the reach.

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