Climate Variability and Change—Hydrological Impacts (Proceedings of the Fifth FRIEND World
Conference held at Havana, Cuba, November 2006), IAHS Publ. 308, 2006, 579–585.
Modelling of inundation patterns on the Pilica
River flood plain, Poland
MUSTAFA ALTINAKAR1, EDYTA KIEDRZYŃSKA2,3 & ARTUR MAGNUSZEWSKI4
1 The National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering. The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi 38677, USA
asmagnus@uw.edu.pl
2 University of Lodz, Department of Applied Ecology, Banacha Str. 12/16, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
3 European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology under the auspices of UNESCO, 3 Tylna Str., 90-364 Lodz, Poland
4 Warsaw University, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
Abstract Eutrophication of inland
waters can be significantly prevented by enhancing the natural
self-purification ability of rivers through deposition of their sediment load
on the flood plain. One of the efficient ways to achieve natural sedimentation
on the flood plain is through modification of natural vegetation cover by
introducing willow plantations. Planning and implementation of such plantations
require a sound understanding of the flow and sediment transport dynamics. In
the present study, CCHE2D, a two-dimensional numerical hydrodynamic model
developed at the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and
Engineering (NCCHE) of the University of Mississippi, was used to investigate
the flow pattern and sedimentation processes on a flood plain of the Pilica
River, with and without plantations.
Key words Pilica River; flood plain sedimentation; river hydraulic
modelling