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    3d Modelling of Surface Spreading and Underground Dam Groundwater Recharge: Egri Creek Subbasin, Turkey
    (Springer, 2023) Şahin, Yavuz; Tayfur, Gökmen
    This study investigated surface spreading and underground dam recharge methods to replenish groundwater in Turkey's Egri Creek Sub-basin of the Kucuk Menderes River Basin. A three-dimensional numerical model was employed for this purpose. Field and lab data are provided to the model for realistic simulations. Pumping test results were used to determine the aquifer parameters. The laboratory works involved sieve analysis, permeability tests, and porosity and water content prediction. The numerical model's boundary conditions were determined from the geological and hydrogeological characteristics of the study area. Initial conditions were expressed regarding water content and pressure head in the vadose zone. The numerical model was satisfactorily validated by simulating water levels in three different pumping wells in the study area. Seven different scenarios, each having a different pool size, were investigated for the surface spreading recharge method. The results showed that a pool size of 30 x 30 m with a 6-m depth basin was the most optimal choice, raising the groundwater level to about 29.3 m. On the other hand, it was found that an underground dam could raise the levels by an average of 9.5 m, which might not be significant to warrant the construction.
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    Numerical Modeling of Transport Processes at Hillslope Scale Accounting for Local Physical Features
    (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011) Tayfur, Gökmen
    Hillslope is the basic unit of a watershed. Typical hillslopes may have a size of 1000 m long and 500 m wide. For watershed modeling, it is essential to accurately describe the illslope-scale processes of flow, erosion and sediment transport, and solute transport. Although these processes are usually considered in experimental studies and theoretical subjects, the existing numerical models that are designed to simulate transport processes at hillslope scale rarely take microtopographic variations into account. Instead, those models assume constant slope, roughness, and infiltration rate for a given basic computational unit (i.e., hillslope). As a result, effects of microtopographic features (e.g., rills) on the aforementioned processes cannot be reflected in modeling results. However, the effects could be important because rill and sheet flows exhibit distinctly different dynamics that influence the transport processes. The objective of this chapter is to review the numerical studies for investigating the transport processes at hillslope scale. The chapter focuses particularly on the modeling efforts with the effects of microtopographic features on the dynamics of the transport processes incorporated.