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Use of the routing procedure to study dye and gas transport in the West Fork Trinity River, Texas

Water Supply Paper 2252
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp2252

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Abstract

Rhodamine-WT dye, ethylene, and propane were injected at three sites along a 21.6-kilometer reach of the West Fork Trinity River below Fort Worth, Texas. Complete dye concentration versus time curves and peak gas concentrations were measured at three cross sections below each injection. The peak dye concentrations were located and samples were collected at about three-hour intervals for as many as six additional cross sections. These data were analyzed to determine the longitudinal dispersion coefficients as well as the gas desorption coefficients using both standard techniques and a numerical routing procedure. The routing procedure, using a Lagrangian transport model to minimize numerical dispersion, provided better estimates of the dispersion coefficient than did the method of moments. At a steady flow of about 0.76 m2/s, the dispersion coefficient varied from about 0.7 m2/s in a reach contained within a single deep pool to about 2.0 m2/s in a reach containing riffles and small pools. The bulk desorption coefficients computed using the routing procedure and the standard peak method were essentially the same. The liquid film coefficient could also be obtained using the routing procedure. Both the bulk desorption coefficient and the liquid film coefficient were much smaller in the pooled reach than in the reaches containing riffles.

Suggested Citation

Jobson, H.E., Rathbun, R.E., 1984, Use of the routing procedure to study dye and gas transport in the West Fork Trinity River, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2252, iv, 21 p. :ill. ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp2252.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Use of the routing procedure to study dye and gas transport in the West Fork Trinity River, Texas
Series title Water Supply Paper
Series number 2252
DOI 10.3133/wsp2252
Year Published 1984
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. G.P.O.,
Description iv, 21 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
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