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Mathematical Model for Flood Forecasting of the Chi River Basin Kantima Meeyaem 1 and Pattarawit Polpinit 2+ 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University Chalermphrakiat SakonNakhon Province Campus, SakonNakhon, Thailand 2 Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, KhonKaen University, KhonKaen, Thailand Abstract. Accurate flood forecasting is desirable in order to have lead-time for taking appropriate prevention measures so as to minimize the damage caused. In this paper, a hybrid model, which combines three mathematical concepts, namely, drainage density, Gumbel distribution function and Muskingum method, are employed for flood foresting in the Chi River Basin. All three concepts have been shown to be generally effective with the areas in Thailand [1]-[3]. The model is applied to the area called Phra Lap district that is very close to KhonKaen city, Thailand. Data of monthly water levels and geological data of the Chi River basin are used. The experimental results show that the hybrid model has overall good accuracy performance. Keywords: mathematical flood modelling, flood forecasting, Gumbel distribution, drainage density, Muskingum method 1. Introduction Flood is a worldwide problem that is difficult to predict because there are many natural and unnatural factors that can cause flood. Numerical models for flood prediction have been studied extensively and cangenerally be classified into two main categories, namely conceptual model and empirical model based on system analysis [for example 4-6].Usually the conceptual models require huge amount of data in order to calibrate the model. Hence the empirical model may be preferred for its simplicity. Many mathematical concepts have been applied in those empirical models including Gumbel distribution, drainage density, and Muskingum method. Gumbel distribution function is generally effective when applied to flood flows with respect to the criteria required [7]. Md. AbdusSabur[1] conducted a flood frequency analysis of the divided flood regions in order to determine the best probability distributions of annual flood peaks in Thailand and found that the best probability distribution function for fitting the empirical frequency distribution of annual flood peaks series in Thailand is Gumbel distribution. Natural Environmental Research Council of the United Kingdom [2] also recommended that Gumbel distribution is the first choice among distributions of the annual flood peaks, when only a small sample is available and the distribution to be fitted if an estimate based on the sample data along is required. Drainage density (Dd) was defined by Horton [8] as the ratio of the total length of rivers in a watershed over its contributing area. It describes the degree of drainage network development and was recognized by many authors to be significantly e ective on the area where flood frequently occurs [9, 10]. The data of drainage density is useful to help evaluate the risk of flood as many works have incorporated the concept for flood analysis in Thailand [11]-[13]. Muskingum method is one of the best known method for flood routing (works using Muskingum method are for example [14, 15]). Corresponding author. Tel.: +66-4336-2160 Email address: [email protected] 5 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Agriculture IPCBEE vol.63 (2014 ) © (2014 ) IACSIT Press, Singapore DOI: 10.7763/IPCBEE. 2014 . V63. 2

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Mathematical Model for Flood Forecasting of the Chi River

Basin

Kantima Meeyaem1and Pattarawit Polpinit

2+

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University Chalermphrakiat

SakonNakhon Province Campus, SakonNakhon, Thailand 2Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, KhonKaen University, KhonKaen, Thailand

Abstract.Accurate flood forecasting is desirable in order to have lead-time for taking appropriate

prevention measures so as to minimize the damage caused. In this paper, a hybrid model, which combines three mathematical concepts, namely, drainage density, Gumbel distribution function and Muskingum

method, are employed for flood foresting in the Chi River Basin. All three concepts have been shown to be

generally effective with the areas in Thailand [1]-[3]. The model is applied to the area called Phra Lap district

that is very close to KhonKaen city, Thailand. Data of monthly water levels and geological data of the Chi

River basin are used. The experimental results show that the hybrid model has overall good accuracy

performance.

Keywords: mathematical flood modelling, flood forecasting, Gumbel distribution, drainage density,

Muskingum method

1. Introduction

Flood is a worldwide problem that is difficult to predict because there are many natural and unnatural

factors that can cause flood. Numerical models for flood prediction have been studied extensively and

cangenerally be classified into two main categories, namely conceptual model and empirical model based on

system analysis [for example 4-6].Usually the conceptual models require huge amount of data in order to

calibrate the model. Hence the empirical model may be preferred for its simplicity. Many mathematical

concepts have been applied in those empirical models including Gumbel distribution, drainage density, and

Muskingum method.

Gumbel distribution function is generally effective when applied to flood flows with respect to the

criteria required [7]. Md. AbdusSabur[1] conducted a flood frequency analysis of the divided flood regions

in order to determine the best probability distributions of annual flood peaks in Thailand and found that the

best probability distribution function for fitting the empirical frequency distribution of annual flood peaks

series in Thailand is Gumbel distribution. Natural Environmental Research Council of the United Kingdom

[2] also recommended that Gumbel distribution is the first choice among distributions of the annual flood

peaks, when only a small sample is available and the distribution to be fitted if an estimate based on the

sample data along is required.Drainage density (Dd) was defined by Horton [8] as the ratio of the total length

of rivers in a watershed over its contributing area. It describes the degree of drainage network development

and was recognized by many authors to be significantly effective on the area where flood frequently occurs

[9, 10]. The data of drainage density is useful to help evaluate the risk of flood as many works have

incorporated the concept for flood analysis in Thailand [11]-[13]. Muskingum method is one of the best

known method for flood routing (works using Muskingum method are for example [14, 15]).

Corresponding author. Tel.: +66-4336-2160

Email address: [email protected]

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2014 International Conference on Intelligent Agriculture

IPCBEE vol.63 (2014 ) © (2014 ) IACSIT Press, Singapore

DOI: 10.7763/IPCBEE. 2014 . V63. 2

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The method is based on an assumed linear relationship between a channel’s storageand inflow and

outflow discharge and consequently, it accounts for prism and wedge storage.

In this paper, a hybrid algorithm that includes parameters from Gumbel distribution, drainage density,

and Muskingum method will be applied to the study area, namely, Ban Phue that is a village located at the

center of PhraLupdistrict as shown in Fig 1. The area has the Chi River as the boundary on the south and is

next to KhonKaen city that is one of the most important cities in the northeast region of Thailand. The

parameters of Gumbel distribution and drainage density will be from the results presented in [6] where

Polpinit and Meeyaem applied Gumbel distribution and drainage density to the studied area.In addition,

Muskingum method implementation will be analyzed here. There has been no system for flood forecasting or

flood warning to prevent flood within the district.

Fig. 1 (a) Map of Phra Lap district (b) Map of hydrological stations E.16A and E.1

2. Hybrid Flood Model

Each concept is analyzed individually using water of the past five years to calibrate parameter to the

study area.

2.1. Gumbel distribution function [6]

The analysis of the past monthly water level data using Gumbel distribution function in order to obtain

the period of occurrence of the flood is described here. The data are water level of the past five years

measured at the upstream hydrological water station (E.16A shown in Figure1(b)).The average water level

and the standard deviation of the data are obtained. Then the parameters of moment estimation (α0 and β0)

can be obtained as follows:

𝛼0 =𝜋

𝑆 6 (1)

𝛽0 = 𝑥 − 0.45𝑆 (2)

where S is the standard deviation of the yearly maximum water level and x is the average water level.

The water level (QTr) attimeTr can be obtained by solving the following equation:

𝑄𝑇𝑟= 𝛽𝑂 − 𝛼𝑂 𝑙𝑛 −𝑙𝑛 1 −

1

𝑇𝑟 (3)

Then we simulate water level in order to analyze the period of the recurrence of the flood water level

which show that the minimum water level from the generated data is152 m. (MSL.). Using the minimum, we

obtain the period of reoccurrence with the following relation between Gumbel reduced variant and the period

of recurrence

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𝑒−𝑒−𝑦= 1 −

1

𝑇𝑟 (4)

2.2. Drainage density [6]

Drainage density can be obtained by following Equation.

𝐷𝑑 = ∑𝐿

𝐴 (5)

where 𝐷𝑑 is drainage density

𝐿 is the length of the river

𝐴 is the size of area basin The study area is divided into four sub-regions by used the height and the distance from the Chi River,

namely A1, A2, A3 and A4, as show in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 Four sub regions of the studied area

Each sub-region shows the size of area that flood flow to the Chi River and the distance from the Chi

River that the water in the river flow to area at time that predict. By use the rainfall and the water level in the

Chi River are basis for decide and choose the sub region. The result of the analysis is shown in Table 1.

Table 1: The results of the Drainage Density analysis

The sub

region

The size of

area

(km2)

The summation of the

length of the river (km.) The 𝑫𝒅 values

(km-1

)

A1 7.31 36.58 5.0041

A2 13.14 43.71 3.3265

A3 20.99 49.93 2.3788

A4 28.53 54.69 1.9169

2.3. Muskingum method

To analyze the flow routing of the Chi River close to the study area, the Muskingum method is used. The

downstream (O) of the Chi River can be calculated as follows

𝑂𝑛 = 𝑐𝐼𝑛−1 + (1 − 𝑐)𝑂𝑛−1 (6)

where O is downstream

𝐼 is upstream of water obtained from the hydrological water station E.16A

𝑐 is constant which can be computed from 𝑐 =𝑣

𝑣+1.7where 𝑣is the cross-sectional average

velocitythat can be computed from Manning equation

𝑣 = 1

𝑛𝑅

2

3𝑆1

2 (7)

where 𝑅 is hydraulic radius

𝑆is slope of water surface 1.329 meter

𝑛 is the Manning coefficient which is 0.025

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We are interested in peak time delay between upstream and downstream in the graph of flow routing that

can be interpreted as water that could leakage to the surrounded area. Figure 3 shows the graph of flow

routing during the flood period in 2011.

Fig. 3 water flow of the study area

3. Model Concept

The model studied in this paper combines the concepts of Gumbeldistribution function, drainage density

and Muskingum method to forecast flood in the study area. Using parameters calibrated in the analysis step,

we set the function for the flood prediction as follows:

Percent chance of flood = 𝑤1𝑥1+𝑤2𝑥2+𝑤3𝑥3

𝑤1+𝑤2 +𝑤3 (8)

where 𝑥1 = 100

𝑑∗ 𝑇𝑟 where 𝑑is the total number of days mornitored and 𝑇𝑟 is the number of

days from the predicted recurrence of maximum water level using Gumbel distribution

𝑥2 = 100

152.6∗ 𝐸 where 𝐸 is the water level at the hydrological water station E.16A

𝑥3 = 100

550.0∗ 𝐸where𝐸 is the water flow calculated in the study area using Muskingum

method.

𝑤1, 𝑤2 and 𝑤3 are weight for Gumbel distribution, drainage density and Muskingum

method respectively.

Using the water data of the study area from the year 2007-2011 for flood simulation, we set the

parameters w1 , w2 and w3 to be 1.0, 2.0 and 2.0 respectively. The percent chance of flood presents the

chance that the study area will have flood. It can also approximate the damage of the flood i.e. for all the

heavy flood during the period of experimental simulation the equation presents the number of higher of 90%.

We evaluate the model using past water data from the year 2002-2006 and found that the model gave an

accurate prediction. All heavy flood occurrences during that period were reported in the model with the

percent chance of flood of over 90%. Almost all flash flood occurrences were also be detected with the

chance of flood shown ranged from around 60%-80%.

4. Conclusion

In this paper, a hybrid model is proposed for flood prediction and tested in the case study area. The

model contains three mathematical concepts, namely, Gumbel distribution function, drainage density and

Muskingum method. Each of these concepts has their own characteristic and represents a difference view to

water data. Each concept was calibrated to optimize parameters individually and together using past water

Peak attenuation

Peak time delay

Downstream

Upstream

Water flo

w (m

3/s)

Days

Peak attenuation

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data. The evaluation shows that the hybrid model givesfairly accurate prediction. The model could be

suitable for real time flood prediction system due to its less complexity and small amount of data required.

One of the possible future works would be to investigate the correlation between the percent chance of flood

and the damage level.

5. Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Department of Royal Irrigation, Khon Kaen province, for the data of

monthly water levels from the hydrological station in the Chi River to use in this research and also the

Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University for providing financial support for this project.

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