High-performance simulation of dynamic hydrologic exchange and implications for surrogate flow and reactive transport modeling in a large river corridor

Fang, Yilin; Song, Xuehang; Ren, Huiying; Perkins, William A.; Shuai, Pin; Richmond, Marshall C.; Hou, Zhangshuan; Bao, Jie; Chen, Xingyuan; Scheibe, Timothy D.

doi:10.3389/frwa.2020.564211

Title: High-performance simulation of dynamic hydrologic exchange and implications for surrogate flow and reactive transport modeling in a large river corridor

Journal Article · Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Frontiers in Water

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2020.564211· OSTI ID:1734885

Fang, Yilin ^[1]; Song, Xuehang ^[1];

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BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)

Hydrologic exchange flows (HEFs) have environmental significance in riverine ecosystems. Key river channel factors that influence the spatial and temporal variations of HEFs include river stage, riverbed morphology, and riverbed hydraulic conductivity. However, their impacts on HEFs were often evaluated independently or on small scales. In this study, we evaluated the combined interactions of these factors on HEFs using a high-performance simulator, PFLOTRAN, for subsurface flow and transport. The model covers 51 square kilometers of a selected river corridor with large sinuosity along the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River in Washington, US. Three years of spatially distributed hourly river stages were applied to the riverbed. The simulation using homogeneous riverbed conductivity underestimated HEFs, especially upwelling from lateral features, and overestimated the mean residence times derived from particle tracking. To derive a surrogate model for the river corridor, we amended the widely used transient storage model (TSM) for riverine solute study at reach scale with reactions. The dynamic residence time and hyporheic volume for the whole river corridor were estimated and used as inputs for the TSM. Our results show that there is potential to parameterize surrogate models such as TSM amended with biogeochemical reactions while incorporating small-scale process understandings and the signature of time-varying streamflow to advance the mechanistic understanding of river corridor processes at reach to watershed scales. However, the assumption of a well-mixed storage zone for TSM should be revisited when redox-sensitive reactions in the storage zones play important roles in river corridor functioning.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1734885

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-153319

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Water, Vol. 2

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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