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Article Citation - WoS: 16Citation - Scopus: 19Comparative Analysis of Estimation of Slope-Length Gradient (ls) Factor for Entire Afghanistan(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Ansari, Ahmad; Tayfur, Gökmen; 03.03. Department of Civil Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologySlope length gradient (LS) is one of the crucial factors in the Universal Soil Loss Equations (USLE, RUSLE). This study aimed at estimating the slope-length and slope-steepness (LS) factor for the entire watersheds of Afghanistan by using three different methods, namely; (1) LS-TOOLMFD (Method 1); (2) The Method of Equations (Method 2); and (3) The approach of Moore and Burch (Method 3). The first method uses the digital elevation model (DEM) in the ASCII format, and the other two methods use the DEM in the spatial domain. The results show that the LS-factor of the study area ranges from 0.01 to 44.31, with a mean of 5.24 and standard deviation of 6.95, according to Method 1; 0.03 to 163.49, with a mean of 9.6 and standard deviation of 13.58, according to Method 2; and 0 to 3985, with a mean of 7.16 and standard deviation of 29.7, according to Method 3. The study reveals that Methods 1 and 2 are more appropriate than Method 3 because Method 3 yields high LS-factor values close to or at streamlines located near mountainous regions. The highest LS values are found to be in the northeast, north, and central regions of Afghanistan, which is consistent with the high mountains and deep valley geomorphology, indicating that these regions are particularly vulnerable to soil erosion by rainfall-runoff processes. The sediment delivery ratio (SDR) for the Upper-Helmand River Basin (Upper-HRB) is also estimated by the RUSLE, employing the LS factors produced by the three methods. The results revealed that the average annual soil loss is found to be, respectively, 9.3, 18.2, and 11.1 (ton/ha/year) by using the three methods, corresponding to SDR of 23.5%, 12.1%, and 19.9%.Article Two dimensional bed deformation model in turbulent streams(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Gharehbaghi, Amin; Tayfur, Gökmen; Tayfur, Gökmen; 03.03. Department of Civil Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyA coupled model is developed to simulate two dimensional water surface profile, suspended sediment load and bed deformation in unsteady open channels. The hydrodynamical component employs the two dimensional shallow water equations to obtain the hydraulic variables. These, in turn, are used in the morphdynamical component to determine the bed deformation. For the turbulence variables; two turbulence models are supervened to the governing equations. Triangular meshes were developed to discretize the domain of open channel. In order to discretize the governing equations, the explicit finite volume method is used by the total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes. The performance of the developed model is compared to that of the Flow3D software. The comparison results are in good agreement.