The Sensitivity of Hyporheic Exchange to Fractal Properties of Riverbeds

Lee, Anzy; Aubeneau, Antoine F.; Cardenas, M. Bayani

doi:10.1029/2019wr026560

Title: The Sensitivity of Hyporheic Exchange to Fractal Properties of Riverbeds

Journal Article · Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Water Resources Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr026560· OSTI ID:1779417

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Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Hyporheic exchange in riverbeds is driven by current-bed topography interactions. Because riverbeds exhibit topographic roughness across scales, from individual grains to bedforms and bars, they can exhibit fractal patterns. This study analyzed the influence of fractal properties of riverbed topography on hyporheic exchange. A set of synthetic fractal riverbeds with different scaling statistics was used as inputs to sequentially coupled numerical simulations of turbulent channel flow and hyporheic flow. In the analysis, the maximum power spectrum (dune size) and the fractal dimension (topographic complexity) were considered as independent variables and we then investigated how interfacial fluxes and hyporheic travel times are functionally related to these variables. As the maximum power spectrum increases (i.e., dune height to flow depth ratio), the average interfacial flux increases logarithmically whereas it increases exponentially with an increase in fractal dimension. Hyporheic exchange is more sensitive to additional roughness (larger fractal dimensions) than to bedform size (larger maximum power). Our results imply that fractal properties of riverbeds are crucial to predicting hyporheic exchange. The predictive relationships we propose could be integrated with reduced complexity, large-scale models. Further, they can also be used to design artificial topographies that target hyporheic ecosystem services.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDA

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018042; 2016‐33522‐25629

OSTI ID:: 1779417

Journal Information:: Water Resources Research, Vol. 56, Issue 5; ISSN 0043-1397

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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