TY - JOUR
T1 - Fractal characteristic analysis of watershed as variable of synthetic unit hydrograph model
AU - Gede Tunas, I.
AU - Anwar, Nadjadji
AU - Lasminto, Umboro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Tunas et al.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Fractal characteristic of watershed is an important parameter which influences the formation of synthetic unit hydrograph. Based on a previous study, hydrology response of watershed expressed in hydrograph form could be well presented by hydrology network characteristic as a form of fractal characteristic of watershed [1]. Fractal characteristic of watershed was stated as fractal dimension which was presented in three parameters i.e. river branch ratio (RB), river length ratio (RL) and watershed river area ratio (RA). The purpose of this research was to analyze fractal characteristic and to verify its fractal dimension stability as preliminary research to prepare variables which would be used to develop synthetic unit hydrograph model in the future. Analysis was undertaken using two methods i.e. Horton’s Coefficient Ratio and Box Counting Dimension. Analysis result revealed that fractal dimension of river network from 8 watersheds calculated using those two methods could give almost the same result, ranged from 1 to 2. Fractal dimension from calculation also showed similarity with study conducted by Tarboton et al. [2], Balkhanov et al. [3], Khanbabaei et al. [4], obtaining that fractal dimension of river network is generally in the range of 1 to 2.
AB - Fractal characteristic of watershed is an important parameter which influences the formation of synthetic unit hydrograph. Based on a previous study, hydrology response of watershed expressed in hydrograph form could be well presented by hydrology network characteristic as a form of fractal characteristic of watershed [1]. Fractal characteristic of watershed was stated as fractal dimension which was presented in three parameters i.e. river branch ratio (RB), river length ratio (RL) and watershed river area ratio (RA). The purpose of this research was to analyze fractal characteristic and to verify its fractal dimension stability as preliminary research to prepare variables which would be used to develop synthetic unit hydrograph model in the future. Analysis was undertaken using two methods i.e. Horton’s Coefficient Ratio and Box Counting Dimension. Analysis result revealed that fractal dimension of river network from 8 watersheds calculated using those two methods could give almost the same result, ranged from 1 to 2. Fractal dimension from calculation also showed similarity with study conducted by Tarboton et al. [2], Balkhanov et al. [3], Khanbabaei et al. [4], obtaining that fractal dimension of river network is generally in the range of 1 to 2.
KW - Box counting dimension
KW - Fractal characteristic
KW - Horton’s coefficient ratio
KW - Variable
KW - Watershed
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U2 - 10.2174/1874149501610010706
DO - 10.2174/1874149501610010706
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995938837
SN - 1874-1495
VL - 10
SP - 706
EP - 718
JO - Open Civil Engineering Journal
JF - Open Civil Engineering Journal
ER -