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- Presenters-0136 + (Floodplain construction involves the inter … Floodplain construction involves the interplay between channel belt sedimentation and avulsion, overbank deposition of fines, and sediment reworking by channel migration. There has been considerable progress in numerical modelling of these processes over the past few years, for example, by using high resolution flow and sediment transport models to simulate river morphodynamics, albeit over relatively small time and space scales. Such spatially-distributed hydrodynamic models are also regularly used to simulate floodplain inundation and overbank sedimentation during individual floods. However, most existing models of long-term floodplain construction and alluvial architecture do not account for flood hydraulics explicitly. Instead, floodplain sedimentation is typically modelled as an exponential function of distance from the river, and avulsion thresholds are defined using topographic indices (e.g., lateral:downstream slope ratios or metrics of channel belt super-elevation). This presentation aims to provide an overview of these issues, and present results from a hydrodynamically-driven model of long-term floodplain evolution. This model combines a simple network-based model of channel migration with a 2D grid-based model of flood hydrodynamics and overbank sedimentation. The latter involves a finite volume solution of the shallow water equations and an advection-diffusion model for suspended sediment transport. Simulation results are compared with observations from several large lowland floodplains, and the model is used to explore hydrodynamic controls on long-term floodplain evolution and alluvial ridge construction.evolution and alluvial ridge construction.)
