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Simulation of Water Quality in a River Network with Time-Varying Lateral Inflows and Pollutants
Summary
Researchers improved a mathematical model for non-point source pollutant transport in urban river networks by converting the lateral outflow term in the Saint-Venant equations from a constant to a time-varying flow process with linear increase and exponential decay. Applied to Maozhou River Basin, the improved model achieved NSE values of 0.805 and 0.851 for hydrodynamic and water quality simulation, respectively.
Non-point source pollution inflow is one of the main causes of water quality decline in urban river networks. In this paper, aiming at the problem of non-point source pollutant transport in river network, the lateral outflow term in the Saint-Venant equation is improved from the previous constant to the time-varying flow process, and a mathematical model considering the time-varying source and sink term is established. Based on the initial rainfall intensity, surface confluence and non-point source pollutant concentration, a method for calculating the time-varying lateral pollutant input of nodes and tributaries with linear increase and exponential decay in the initial rainfall period is proposed. Based on the principle of proximity, the watershed is divided into districts. According to the principle of elevation, the non-point source pollutants are allocated to the calculation nodes of adjacent rivers in a certain proportion and incorporated into the model calculation so as to improve the mathematical model of river network water quality and apply it to the simulation of river network water quality in Maozhou River Basin. Verified by the measured data, the NSE values of the improved model are 0.805 and 0.851, respectively, indicating that the model has reliable hydrodynamic and water quality simulation accuracy, indicating that the model can be applied to the calculation of non-point source pollutants in the basin. Based on the improved model, the variation of COD concentration in the Maozhou River of Shenzhen before and after optimized water replenishment was calculated, and the time variation and spatial distribution law of the sudden drop of water quality in the river network caused by the inflow of non-point source pollution in the initial rainfall runoff and the rapid recovery after optimized water replenishment were revealed.
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