Two Dimensional Sediment Transport Simulation around Kamijoro 
Intake, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 
Pradipta Nandi Wardhana and Rizki Budiman 
Civil Engineering Department, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Jalan Kaliurang Km 14.5, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 
Keywords:  Sediment Transport, 2 Dimensional Model Simulation, Nays2DH. 
Abstract:  Kamijoro Intake is irrigation water intake structure located in Progo River. The Kamijoro Intake is irrigation 
water source for 2,365 hectares of irrigation area in Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In the operational phase, 
the Kamijoro Intake cannot operate optimally because of sediment deposition around the intake structure. 
Thus,  the  sediment  deposition  behavior  led  to  conduct  research regarding  flow  pattern  and  sedimentation 
characteristic around the intake structure. Two-dimensional mathematical simulation was conducted by using 
Nays2DH  solver  provided  by  iRIC  software.  This  work  simulated  two  hydraulic  conditions  to  enhance 
understanding of hydraulic and sediment  transport behavior  under  high discharge and  low discharge. The 
simulations result showed that high discharge scenario produced higher value on flow parameter such as water 
depth, velocity, and shear stress than low discharge scenario. Furthermore, high discharge generated higher 
value  of  sediment  transport  parameter  than  the  low  discharge  such  as  river  bed  deformation,  river  bed 
elevation development and  bed  load  parameter.  Findings  also  revealed that  immense  sediment  deposition 
around Kamijoro Intake is most influenced by small value of river slope.  
1  INTRODUCTION 
Kamijoro  Intake  is  located  at  Kamijoro  Village, 
Pajangan  Subdistrict,  Bantul  District,  Daerah 
Istimewa  Yogyakarta,  Indonesia.  The  structure  is 
utilized as irrigation water intake for 2,365 hectares 
of irrigation area. Kamijoro Intake was built in year 
1924.  In  order  to  be  located  at  free  sediment 
deposition area, Kamijoro Intake positioned at outer 
section  of  river  bend  (see  Figure  1).  Despite  of 
located at outer river reach bend, sometime Kamijoro 
Intake cannot operate properly because  of  sediment 
deposition flowing inside the intake. The main factor 
influencing  Kamijoro  Intake  performance  in 
supplying  irrigation  water  is  the  intake  structure 
location at the Progo River reach having small river 
slope.  Small  river  slope  around  Kamijoro  Intake 
generates sediment deposition that must be removed 
regularly. Progo River sediment  source  is  Merapi 
Mount. Merapi Mount is one of the active volcanoes 
in the world. 
International River Interface Cooperation (iRIC) 
is  international  group  consisted  of  scientist  and 
engineers who want to provide access of state-of-the-
art mathematic model software for undergraduate and 
graduate  student  to  enhance  understanding  of 
morphodynamics.  Furthermore,  the  research  group 
released  package  software  consisted  of  several 
mathematical solver modules by using similar name 
as iRIC (Nelson, 2016). 
Nays2DH  is  two  dimensional,  depth  averaged, 
unsteady, coupled flow, and sediment transport solver 
provided  by  iRIC  (Kinze,  2015).  Nays2DH  has 
capabilities to simulate river flow, sediment transport, 
and river bed geomorphology.  
There  are  wide  range  of  researches  regarding 
sediment  transport  and  morphological  development 
simulation.  Norman  (2017)  assessed  hydraulic  and 
transport sediment behaviour of ephermal stream for 
restoration purpose, Wickham (2015) found that grain 
size  heterogeneity  influences  bed  load  transport, 
while  bed  roughness  variability  do  not  generated 
impact  in  sediment  transport,  Wongsa  (2016) 
simulated  breach  morphological  development  of 
earthen embankment, and Sarkawt (2017) simulated 
hydro  morphology  response  of  Sandy  River  in 
Oregon toward flood occurrence. 
Moreover,  Ali  (2017)  demonstrated  Nays2DH 
ability to simulate flow pattern around single groyne 
with  several  angles  toward  approaching  flow.  The 
hydraulic  simulation  also  could  produce  secondary 
flow well at the downstream of installed groyne.