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International Journal of Constructive Research in Civil Engineering
Volume 4, Issue 4, 2018, Page No: 35-43
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2454-8693.0404006

The Evaluation Models of the Maximum Daily Mean Discharge Using Physiographic Characteristics for the Western Watersheds in Iran

Mohammad Ali Ezadbakhsh1, Saeid Eslamian1*, Sayyed Farhad Mousavi1, Kaveh Ostad-AliAskari2, Vijay P. Singh3, Nicolas R. Dalezios4

1.Department of Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
2.Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
3.Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering & Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A and M University, 321 Scoates Hall, 2117 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, U.S.A.
4.Laboratory of Hydrology, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece & Department of Natural Resources Development and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Citation : Saeid Eslamian,et.al., The Evaluation Models of the Maximum Daily Mean Discharge Using Physiographic Characteristics for the Western Watersheds in Iran International Journal of Constructive Research in Civil Engineering 2018, 4(4) : 35-43.

Abstract

Flood is one of the events that has attracted attention of hydrologists. In this work, one of the important indices of flood, the maximum-daily mean-discharge, is determined for some western Iran watersheds of indices: Gamasiab, Qaresoo, Seymareh, Kashkan, Sezar and Abshineh.

Daily mean data was chosen from stream-gauging stations and a 30-year common period was selected and flood frequency analysis was done using HYFA and TR software and the best distribution was chosen using the goodness of fit tests. Then, discharge values with different return periods of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 years were evaluated. Modeling was done using the regional analysis by multiple regression technique between maximum-daily mean-discharge and physiographic characteristics of the basins. The main parameter for choosing the model was the adjusted coefficient of determination, and the meaningful level was standard error, and observed discharger was proved by computed discharge plot. So, different models with different parameters were selected from the power, exponential, linear and logarithmic models. But the power model was the one that was used more than the others. According to this work, the main parameters that affect discharge are: channel length, drainage density and time of concentration. Considering the errors, it is concluded that increasing the return period results in an increase in the model error, in a way that for a 1000-year return period, the error reaches 32.2%.


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