Kinematic Routing can be used to model the hydraulics of upstream tributaries and secondary river branches, where the main concern is to route water to the main river system. The Kinematic Routing method does not facilitate the use of structures at Kinematic Routing branches. Moreover, the method does not account for backwater effects.
Since the Kinematic Routing method is unconditionally stable, it facilitates the use of large time steps, which is important when running the model in parallel with the hydrological model, MIKE SHE.
At Kinematic Routing branches, it is possible to run the model without information on cross-sections. In turn, this indicates that Kinematic Routing branches can not be used to model a looped part of a river network. Employment of Kinematic Routing branches requires that all branches located upstream of a Kinematic Routing branch are defined in the same way.
Figure 2.100 Definition of Kinematic Routing branches
Figure 2.101 Definition of Kinematic Routing elements
The dialog used to define a Kinematic Routing branch is shown in Figure 2.100, while the dialog used to define Kinematic Routing elements is shown in Figure 2.101.
