Lake Impoundment in Advance of Post-Flood Period Based on Large-Scale Numerical Simulation

Abstract

Influenced by climate warming and human disturbance, the contradiction between flood control and water supply of the rivers-connected lake is becoming more prominent, and the prevailing dispatch system mainly aimed at flood control is a serious challenge for storage allocation. This paper presents a lake impoundment in advance method during flood recession period, which preliminarily explores the traditional dispatch model and couples it with a high-precision hydrodynamic model. A one- and two-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic model was constructed for integrated flood regulation in the “river-lake-flood detention basin” system. Then a sample library of water storage strategies was developed, which combined impounding times and gate operation schemes based on previous engineering experience. Thus, by combining large-scale numerical simulations of flood scenarios and risk-benefit assessment, the dispatching schemes facilitating the combined use of gates during the post-flood period under different wet-dry conditions were determined. The results show that: (1) the hydrological-hydrodynamic model has high accuracy for realizing the elaborate simulation of flood evolution and inundation dynamic between lands and lakes, with the average error controlled from 0.03 to 0.14 m, (2) the strategy extraction method of post-flood impoundment in advance for the lake basin is proposed, which takes the impounding times, gate scheduling rules, and inflow scenarios into account comprehensively, and (3) under the optimal storage strategies, the water storage efficiency is significantly improved, with the water level overrun rate controlled at 19.24%, the terminal storage level raised by 0.96 m, and the storage capacity increased by 17.0×108 m3 on average. The outcomes will provide support for flood control and water storage improvement during the post-flood period, which is beneficial to the utilization and management of flood resources.