STUDY ON EFFECT OF THE WATER TEMPERATURE ON DISTRIBUTION OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT IN RESERVOIRS AND LAKES USING FLOW3D

Water is the most basic requirement of human, which covers 71 percent of surface of the world, approximately. From this amount of water on the earth, only fresh water isusable for human. Thus, it is important to save the fresh water resources. In this way, numeric modeling has the basic role in the management and saving of water resources. But it is very difficult to modeling the real flows, which are be in the nature. The complexity of real fluid flow makes it impossible to solve the governing equations without making some form of simplifying approximation, even with the use of complex models and fast computers. In this study, the effect of water temperature on concentration of suspended sediment is investigated by changing the inflow water temperature and concentration. For this purpose, the FLOW3D computational fluid dynamics code was selected. Finally, results are shown and compared with each other in figures and tables

Keywords:

Reservoir , Stratified Reservoirs and Lakes , FLOW 3D , Suspended Sediment