Model help:CHILD

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CHILD

The CHILD model simulates the evolution of a topographic surface and its subjacent stratigraphy under a set of driving erosion and sedimentation processes and with a prescribed set of initial and boundary conditions.

Model introduction

Designed to serve as a computational framework for investigating a wide range of problems in catchment geomorphology, CHILD is both a model, in the sense that it com¬prises a set of hypotheses about how nature works, and a software tool, in the sense that it provides a simulation environment for exploring the conse¬quences of different hypotheses, parameters, and boundary conditions. The model provides a general and extensible computational framework for exploring research questions related to landscape evolution. It simulates the interaction of two general types of process: “fluvial” processes, a category which encompasses erosion or deposition by runoff cascading across the landscape, and “hillslope” processes, which includes weathering, soil creep, and other slope transport processes.

Model parameters

Parameter Description Unit
Input directory Paths to input files -
Site prefix Site prefix for input/output files -
Case prefix Case prefix for input/output files -
Parameter Description Unit
Run duraction simulation run time years
Parameter Description Unit
Type of uplift 0 = none; 1 = uniform; 2 = block -
Duration of uplift years
Uplift rate m / yr
Subsidence rate m / yr
Position of fault m
Parameter Description Unit
SubaqueousErosion port use the SubaqueousErosion provides port -
Parameter Description Unit
Width of grid in x-direction m
Width of grid in y-direction m
Mean distance between grid nodes m
Parameter Description Unit
Output directory path to output grid files -
Interval between output files -
File format format for output files -
elevation file output file prefix for variable -
erosion file output file prefix for variable -
discharge file output file prefix for variable -
sediment file output file prefix for variable -
Parameter Description Unit
Output directory path to output grid files -
Interval between output files -
File format format for output files -
Cellelevation file output file prefix for variable -
Cellerosion file output file prefix for variable -
Celldischarge file output file prefix for variable -
Cellsediment file output file prefix for variable -
Parameter Description Unit
Model name name of the model -
Author name name of the model author -

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Main equations

  • Hydraulic Geometry

1) bankfull discharbge

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{b} = R_{b} A }[/math] (1)

2) bankfull channel width

[math]\displaystyle{ W_{b} = k_{w} Q_{b} ^ \left (\omega b\right ) }[/math] (2)

3) Channel width

[math]\displaystyle{ {\frac{W}{W_{b}}} = {\frac{Q^ \left ( \omega _{b} \right )}{Q_{b}}} }[/math] (3)

4) bankfull water depth

[math]\displaystyle{ d_{b} = k_{d} Q_{b} ^ \left (\delta _{b} \right ) }[/math] (4)

5) Water depth

[math]\displaystyle{ {\frac{d}{d_{b}}} = {\frac{Q ^ \left ( \delta _{s}}{Q_{b}}} }[/math] (5)

6) Bankfull bed roughness

[math]\displaystyle{ N_{b} = k_{N} Q_{b} ^ \left (\nu _{b} \right ) }[/math] (6)

7) Bed roughness

[math]\displaystyle{ {\frac{N}{N_{b}}} = {\frac{Q ^ \left ( \nu _{s}}{Q_{b}}} }[/math] (7)

8) Bankfull bank roughness

[math]\displaystyle{ M_{b} = k_{M} Q_{b} ^ \left (\mu _{b} \right ) }[/math] (8)

9) Bed roughness

[math]\displaystyle{ {\frac{M}{M_{b}}} = {\frac{Q ^ \left ( \mu _{s}}{Q_{b}}} }[/math] (9)
  • Overview of Transport, Erosion, and Deposition by Running water

1) Continuity of mass equation for the time rate of change of height at a cell

[math]\displaystyle{ {\frac{dz_{i}}{dt}} = {\frac{1}{\Lambda _{i}}} \left ( -Q_{Si} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^\left (N_{i} \right ) Q_{Sj} \right ) }[/math] (10)

2) Potential erosion/deposition rate

[math]\displaystyle{ \Phi _{i} = {\frac{1}{\Lambda _{i}}} \left ( -Q_{Ci} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^\left (N_{i} \right ) Q_{Sj} \right ) }[/math] (11)

3) Volumetric water-borne sediment transport rate out of the cell

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{Si} = \left\{\begin{matrix} \lambda _{i} D_{ci} & if \Phi _{i} \gt D_{c} \\ Q_{Ci} & otherwise \end{matrix}\right. }[/math] (12)
  • Detachment-Capacity Laws

1) bed shear stress

[math]\displaystyle{ \tau _{0} = K_{t} \left ({\frac{Q}{W}}\right ) ^ \left (M_{b}\right ) S^ \left (N_{b}\right ) }[/math] (13)

2) Detachment capacity

[math]\displaystyle{ D _{c} = \left\{\begin{matrix} K_{br} \left ( \tau _{0} - \tau _{c} \right ) ^ \left (P_{b}\right ) & Detachment_law = 0 \\ K_{br} \left ( \tau _{0} ^ \left (P_{b} \right ) - \tau _{c} ^ \left (P_{b}\right ) & Detachment_law = 1 }[/math] (14)
  • Transport Capacity Laws

1) Transport_Law = 0 (Power law formula, form 1)

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{c} = K_{f} W \left ( \tau _{0} - \tau _{c} \right ) ^ \left (P_{f} \right ) }[/math] (15)

2) Transport_Law = 1 (Power law formula, form 2)

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{c} = K_{f} W \left ( \tau _{0} ^ \left (P_{f}\right ) - \tau _{c} ^ \left (P_{f} \right ) }[/math] (16)

3) Transport_Law = 2 (Bridge-Dominic version of Bagnold formula)

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{c} = K_{f} W \left (\tau _{0} - \tau _{c} \right ) \left ( \sqrt{\tau _{0}} - \sqrt{\tau _{c}} }[/math] (17)
[math]\displaystyle{ K_{f} = {\frac{a}{\rho ^ \left ({\frac{1}{2}} \left ( \delta - \rho \right ) g tan \Phi}} }[/math] (18)

4) Transport_Law = 4 (Generic power-law formula for multiple size fractions)

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{ci} = f_{i} K_{f} W \left (\tau _{0} - \tau _{ci} \right ) ^\left ( P_{f} \right ) }[/math] (19)

5) Transport_Law = 6 (Simple slope-discharge power law)

[math]\displaystyle{ Q_{c} = K_{f} Q^ \left (M_{f}\right ) S^\left (N_{f}\right ) }[/math] (20)
  • Soil Creep

1) volumetric sediment discharge per unit width (liner)

[math]\displaystyle{ q_{c} = K_{d} \nabla z }[/math] (21)

2) volumetric sediment discharge per unit width (nonliner)

[math]\displaystyle{ q_{c} = {\frac{K_{d}\nabla z}{1 - \left ( |\nabla z | / S_{c}\right )^2 }} }[/math] (22)

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Examples

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Developer(s)

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References

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