简介:Thefrontpartoftheflowisveryimportantandcomplexinthecaseofdebrisflowwherethereisanaccumulationoflargeboulders.Itisimportanttocontrolordampentheenergyofthefrontalpartofadebrisflowforthesafetyofthedownstreamareabecausetheimpactpressureofdebrisflowismuchgreaterthanthatofclearfluid.Themainobjectiveofthisstudyistoanalyzethehydrauliccharacteristicsoftheproposeddam(i.e.closed-typedamwithflap).Theverticalpressuredistributionofthistypeiscomparedwithconventionaldamtypes.Intheexperiments,thetotalpressureassociatedwithmajordebrisflowswasrecordedinrealtimebyasystemconsistingoffourdynamicpressuresensorsinstalledondifferenttypesofdam.Theresultsfromexperimentaldataclearlyshowthatthedamwiththeflaphasadvantagesofcapturingthedebrisflowwithlargebouldersandcontrolsthetotalpressurebyflowcirculationduetopresenceoftheflapstructurecomparedtoaclosed-typedamwithoutflap.Furthermore,theempiricalcoefficientsofhydrodynamicandsolidcollisionmodelswereproposedandcomparedwithavailablecoefficients.
简介:Whenflowpassesoverafreeoverfallspillway,formsajet.Thisjetofflowwithahighvelocitymaycausescouratthedownstreamofspillway.Thescourholecharacteristicsisaffectedbyparameterslikedischargeintensity,dropheight,tailwaterdepth,sizeofbedmaterialandstandarddeviationofbedmaterial.Inthispaper,resultsofexperimentsonscourbelowfreeoverfallspillwayforuniformandnonuniformbedmaterialsarepresented.Itwasfoundthatscourholecharacteristics(i.e.maximumdepthofscour,distanceofmaximumscourpointfromspillway,widthofscourhole,distanceofendofscourholefromspillwayandheightofridgeformedatthedownstreamofscourhole)isafunctionofdensimetricFroudenumberandratioofdropheighttotailwaterdepth.Analysisofexperimentaldatawithuniformbedmaterialresultedinequationsforestimationofscourholecharacteristics.Furthercorrectionfactorswereintroducedinordertoconsidertheeffectofnon-uniformityofbedmaterial.
简介:Asemi-implicit3-Dnumericalformulationforsolvingnon-hydrostaticpressurefree-surfaceflowsonanunstructured,sigmagridisproposed.Pressure-splittingand9semi-implicitmethodsareinheritedandreformedfromCasulli'sz-coordinateformulation.Thenon-orthogonalsigma-coordinatetransformationleadstoadditionalterms.Theresultinglinearsystemforthenon-hydrostaticcorrectionisdiagonallydominantbutunsymmetric,anditissolvedbytheBiCGstabmethod.Incontrastwithz-coordinatenon-hydrostaticmodels,thenewmodelfitsverticalboundariesmuchbetter,whichisimportantforthelong-timesimulationofsedimenttransportandriverbeddeformation.Alock-exchangedensityflowiscomputedtodeterminewhetherthenewschemeisabletosimulatenon-hydrostaticfree-surfaceflows.ThenewmodelisfurtherverifiedusingthefielddataofanaturalriverbendofthelowerYangtzeRiver.Goodagreementbetweensimulationsandearlierresearchresults,fielddataisobtained,indicatingthatthenewmodelisapplicabletohydraulicprojectsinrealrivers.