Lecture 22012

CE 374K Hydrology, Lecture 2
Hydrologic Systems
• Setting the context in Brushy Creek

• Hydrologic systems and hydrologic models
• Reynolds Transport Theorem
• Continuity equation
• Reading for next Tuesday – Applied Hydrology,

Sections 2.3 to 2.8
Capital Area Counties
Floodplains in Williamson County
Area of County = 1135 mile2

13% of county in floodplain
Area of floodplain = 147 mile2
Floodplain Zones
1% chance
< 0.2% chance
Main zone of water flow
Flow with a Sloping Water Surface

Flood Control Dams
Dam 13A
Flow with a Horizontal Water Surface

Watershed – Drainage area of a point on a stream
Rainfall
Streamflow
Connecting rainfall input with streamflow output

HUC-12 Watersheds for Brushy Creek
Hydrologic Unit Code
12 – 07 – 02 – 05 – 04 – 01 12-digit identifier
Tropical Storm Hermine,
Sept 7-8, 2010
Hydrologic System
We need to understand how all these components function together
Watersheds
Reservoirs Channels
Hydrologic System
Take a watershed and extrude it vertically into the atmosphere

and subsurface, Applied Hydrology, p.7- 8
A hydrologic system is “a structure or volume in space surrounded by a

boundary, that accepts water and other inputs, operates on them
internally, and produces them as outputs”
System Transformation
Inputs, I(t) Outputs, Q(t)
Transformation Equation
Q(t) =  I(t)
A hydrologic system transforms inputs to outputs
Hydrologic Processes
I(t), Q(t)
Hydrologic conditions
I(t) (Precip)
Physical environment
Q(t) (Streamflow)
Stochastic transformation
Inputs, I(t) Outputs, Q(t)
System transformation
f(randomness, space, time)
Hydrologic Processes
I(t), Q(t)
How do we characterize
uncertain inputs, outputs Hydrologic conditions
and system transformations?
Physical environment
Ref: Figure 1.4.1 Applied Hydrology

System = f(randomness, space, time)
randomness
space
time
Five dimensional problem but at most we can deal with only two or three
dimensions, so which ones do we choose?
Deterministic, Lumped Steady Flow Model
I=Q
e.g. Steady flow in an open channel

Deterministic, Lumped Unsteady Flow Model
dS/dt = I - Q
e.g. Unsteady flow through a watershed, reservoir or river channel

Deterministic, Distributed, Unsteady Flow Model
Stream Cross-section
e.g. Floodplain mapping

Stochastic, time-independent model
1% chance
< 0.2% chance
e.g. One hundred year flood discharge estimate at a point on a river channel
Views of Motion
• Eulerian view (for fluids • Lagrangian view (for
– e is next to f in the solids)
alphabet!)
Fluid flows through a control volume Follow the motion of a solid body
Reynolds Transport Theorem
• A method for applying physical laws to fluid
systems flowing through a control volume
• B = Extensive property (quantity depends on
amount of mass)
• b = Intensive property (B per unit mass)
dB d
  d    v.dA
dt dt cv cs
Total rate of Rate of change Outflow of B
change of B in fluid of B stored across the Control
system (single within the Surface
phase) Control Volume
Mass, Momentum Energy
Mass Momentum Energy
B m mv 1
E  Eu  mv 2  mgz
2
1 2
b = dB/dm 1 v eu  v  gz
2
d dE dH dW
dB/dt 0  F  dt mv   
dt dt dt
Conservation Newton’s First Law of

Physical Law of mass Second Law of Thermodynamics
Motion
dB d
  d    v.dA
dt dt cv cs
Reynolds Transport Theorem
dB d
  d    v.dA
dt dt cv cs
Total rate of Rate of change Net outflow of B
change of B of B stored in across the
in the fluid the control control surface
system volume
Continuity Equation
dB d
  d    v.dA
dt dt cv cs
B = m; b = dB/dm = dm/dm = 1; dB/dt = 0 (conservation of mass)
d
0   d    v.dA
dt cv cs
r = constant for water
d
0   d   v.dA
dt cv cs
dS dS
hence 0  Q  I  or  I Q
dt dt
Continuity equation for a watershed
Hydrologic systems are nearly always
open systems, which means that it is
I(t) (Precip)
difficult to do material balances on them
What time period do we choose

to do material balances for?
dS/dt = I(t) – Q(t) Q(t) (Streamflow)
 
Closed system if
 I (t )dt   Q(t )dt
 
Continuous and Discrete time data
Figure 2.3.1, p. 28 Applied Hydrology
Continuous time representation
Dt
j-1 j
Sampled or Instantaneous data
(streamflow)
truthful for rate, volume is interpolated
Can we close a discrete-time water balance?
Pulse or Interval data

(precipitation)
truthful for depth, rate is interpolated
Ij Continuity Equation, dS/dt = I – Q
Qj applied in a discrete time interval
[(j-1)Dt, jDt]
Dt
DSj = Ij - Qj
j-1 j
𝑗
𝑆 𝑗 =𝑆 0+ ∑ ( 𝐼 𝑗 −𝑄 𝑗 )
𝑖 =1
Sj = Sj-1 + DSj

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CE 374K Hydrology, Lecture 2

• Setting the context in Brushy Creek

• Reading for next Tuesday – Applied Hydrology,

Area of County = 1135 mile2

Main zone of water flow

Flow with a Sloping Water Surface

Flow with a Horizontal Water Surface

Connecting rainfall input with streamflow output

We need to understand how all these components function together

Take a watershed and extrude it vertically into the atmosphere

A hydrologic system is “a structure or volume in space surrounded by a

A hydrologic system transforms inputs to outputs

Ref: Figure 1.4.1 Applied Hydrology

e.g. Steady flow in an open channel

e.g. Unsteady flow through a watershed, reservoir or river channel

e.g. Floodplain mapping

Conservation Newton’s First Law of

What time period do we choose

dS/dt = I(t) – Q(t) Q(t) (Streamflow)

Continuous time representation

Can we close a discrete-time water balance?

Pulse or Interval data

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