The purpose of this lab is to gain experience running a multi-dimensional (2D or 3D) hydraulic model for a reach of river. You see the process through from choosing a field site, through collecting all the necessary boundary conditions in the field to run the model, to post-processing and preparing your data for use in a hydrualic model, to building you computational mesh, parameterizing and setting up a simulation, validating the model outputs and interpreting the results.
Please prepare a lab write up report for the lab and turn as a PDF.
I expect (minimally) the following standard sections following the scientific method (feel free to elaborate):
- Introduction/Purpose
- Study Site Description
- Methods
- Field Data Collection
- Topographic Boundary Condition Preparation
- Hydraulic Boundary Condition Preparation
- Setting up the Model
- Model Simulation
- Model Validation
- Results
- Topographic Model
- Hydraulic Data
- Low flow steady state Model Simulation
- Model Validation
- Discussion
- Conclusions
I expect adequate figures, tables and/or graphs to illustrate and explain what you did. You should provide sufficient detail in the methods such that someone else could reproduce your results.
This is NOT intended to be a novel scientific contribution, just a thorough, reproducible, and defensible simulation of a low flow 2D hydraulic model that meets the basic standards of practice.