Hydrodynamic and Water Quality FASTER Model and Its Application in River Engineering

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Hydraulic Structures, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

2 Ms.c, Department of Hydraulic Structures, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

Abstract

This paper introduces the 1D hydrodynamic and water quality, FASTER model. this model was first developed by kashefipour in Environmental Research Centre in Cardiff University, UK. FASTER is able to determine water elevation and discharge using numerical solution of the Saint Venant Unsteady and non uniform equations. The implicit Crank-Nikolson central scheme with staggered method was applied for the hydrodynamic module of the model. The influence line technique was used in the numerical solution and as a result the solution remains implicit for all reaches and junctions. The water quality module of the model is able to simulate eleven different water quality parameters including coliforms, BOD, DO, and etc. In this paper the FASTER model is introduced and its abilities is shown using two examples in hydrodynamic simulations and one standard example in water quality simulation.

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Iran-Water Resources Research
Volume 3, Issue 3
June 2008
Pages 56-68

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  • Receive Date: 11 July 2006
  • Revise Date: 23 February 2008
  • Accept Date: 11 March 2008

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