Downstream Reaches Using the CCHE2D Software (Case Study the Karkheh Dam)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Ali Leagat
• Arash Adib
• Hamid Reza Ghafouri

PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

Stability of streambeds is dependent on different factors some of which maybe destabilized at any moment. Dam erection on the riverbed is the most important among those factors. Some
morphological changes of a meandering river, the most obvious of which are the gradient change and  the area deducted or added to the riverbed, were studied downstream of the Karkheh Dam. To delineate the areas, which had been taken from or added to the riverbed due to the lateral and longitudinal displacement of the meanders, morphology of the downstream river bed prior to and after the dam construction were studied employing satellite imagery, and their extent was calculated using the CCHE2D model. Slope reduction, as expected, follows an increase in the riverbed breadth. The average width of the riverbed was reduced from 273 m to 60 m (78% reduction) after the dam construction. The land taken off the streambed was almost 21 hectares for each kilometer of the length of the river. Mean, maximum and minimum horizontal thalweg displacements were 340,768 and 53 meters, respectively; 56% of the displacements were towards right (west) and 59% of the displacement took place out of the original streambed. The mean annual lateral displacement of the riverbed was 34 meters after the dam construction. This finding illustrates the instability of the terrain through which the river flows.

Keywords

• Erosion
• Dam
• Meander
• morphology
• CCHE2D model

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