Coupling surface flow and subsurface flow in complex soil structures using mimetic finite differences
Abstract
We explore the coupling of surface and subsurface flows on fully unstructured meshes that conform to complex soil structures. To accommodate the distorted meshes that inevitably result from explicit representation of complex soil structures, we leverage the structure of the Mimetic Finite Difference (MFD) spatial discretization scheme to couple surface and subsurface flows. The MFD method achieves second-order accuracy and maintains local mass conservation on distorted meshes. We couple the diffusion wave approximation for surface flows to the Richards equation for subsurface flow, ensuring continuity of both pressure and flux between the surface and subsurface. The MFD method is particularly convenient for this coupling because it uses face-based constraints in the subsurface system that can be expressed as face-pressure unknowns. Those unknowns are coincident with surface cell-based unknowns, thus allowing the discrete surface system to be directly substituted into the subsurface system and solved implicitly as a global system. Robust representation of the transition between wet and dry surface conditions requires upwinding of the relative permeability and is facilitated by globalization in the nonlinear solver. The approach and its implementation in the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) are evaluated by comparison to previously published benchmarks. Using runoff from soils with patchymore »
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1644243
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1649323
- Grant/Contract Number:
- LDRD-8872; LDRD-20150397DR; LDRD201200068DR; AC05-00OR22725
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Advances in Water Resources
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advances in Water Resources Journal Volume: 144 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0309-1708
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Mimetic finite differences; Integrated hydrology; Complex stratigraphy
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Coon, Ethan T., Moulton, J. David, Kikinzon, Evgeny, Berndt, Markus, Manzini, Gianmarco, Garimella, Rao, Lipnikov, Konstantin, and Painter, Scott L. Coupling surface flow and subsurface flow in complex soil structures using mimetic finite differences. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103701.
Coon, Ethan T., Moulton, J. David, Kikinzon, Evgeny, Berndt, Markus, Manzini, Gianmarco, Garimella, Rao, Lipnikov, Konstantin, & Painter, Scott L. Coupling surface flow and subsurface flow in complex soil structures using mimetic finite differences. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103701
Coon, Ethan T., Moulton, J. David, Kikinzon, Evgeny, Berndt, Markus, Manzini, Gianmarco, Garimella, Rao, Lipnikov, Konstantin, and Painter, Scott L. Thu .
"Coupling surface flow and subsurface flow in complex soil structures using mimetic finite differences". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103701.
@article{osti_1644243,
title = {Coupling surface flow and subsurface flow in complex soil structures using mimetic finite differences},
author = {Coon, Ethan T. and Moulton, J. David and Kikinzon, Evgeny and Berndt, Markus and Manzini, Gianmarco and Garimella, Rao and Lipnikov, Konstantin and Painter, Scott L.},
abstractNote = {We explore the coupling of surface and subsurface flows on fully unstructured meshes that conform to complex soil structures. To accommodate the distorted meshes that inevitably result from explicit representation of complex soil structures, we leverage the structure of the Mimetic Finite Difference (MFD) spatial discretization scheme to couple surface and subsurface flows. The MFD method achieves second-order accuracy and maintains local mass conservation on distorted meshes. We couple the diffusion wave approximation for surface flows to the Richards equation for subsurface flow, ensuring continuity of both pressure and flux between the surface and subsurface. The MFD method is particularly convenient for this coupling because it uses face-based constraints in the subsurface system that can be expressed as face-pressure unknowns. Those unknowns are coincident with surface cell-based unknowns, thus allowing the discrete surface system to be directly substituted into the subsurface system and solved implicitly as a global system. Robust representation of the transition between wet and dry surface conditions requires upwinding of the relative permeability and is facilitated by globalization in the nonlinear solver. The approach and its implementation in the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) are evaluated by comparison to previously published benchmarks. Using runoff from soils with patchy groundcover (duff) as an example, we show that the new method converges significantly faster in mesh convergence tests than the commonly used two-point flux approximation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103701},
journal = {Advances in Water Resources},
number = C,
volume = 144,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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