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EPS 1135483
Wencong Lai, Fred Ogden, Robert Steinke, Hernan Moreno, Nels Frazier, and Leticia Pureza
Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming
Abstract
Motivating Questions
What are the potential impacts of climate change on the long
term water yield from the Upper Colorado River basin?
How will land-use changes due to development and natural
causes such as fire and the mountain pine bark beetle outbreak
affect water supplies?
How to build a suitable large-scale high-resolution multi-physics
distributed water resources model in parallel computing
environment ?
Mathematical model
Governing Equations
Numerical method
Precipitation
Point-scale process
ET / Snow
Point-scale process
Infiltration
( )
Overland flow
2D dynamic/diffusive wave
1D dynamic/diffusive wave
A Q
Q Q2/ A
Z
+
= qs ,
+
= gA
gAS f
t
x
t
x
x
Groundwater flow
2D Boussinesq flow
Sy
Water management
k ( )
( )
dz
=
1
dt
h
H
H
= Kxh
+ Kyh
+R
t
x
x
y
y
T-O method
GARTO method
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