Estimating Transmission Losses
Infiltration or transmission losses in ephemeral stream channels are an important part of the water balance in arid and semiarid regions. The governing equations for movement of flood...
Gains and Losses of Commingled Waters in a Stream
In a legal dispute in the State of Washington (Colville Confederated Tribes vs. Boyd Walton, Jr. , Farmer), it became necessary to determine the proportion of transmission losses sustained...
Effect of Wetted Perimeter on Infiltration in Furrows
Five empirical infiltration equations were evaluated using data from blocked infiltrometer tests with wetted perimeter values ranging from 28 to 49 cm. The results indicate that the Kostiakov...
Streamflow Losses, Consequent Flow Through a Thick Unsaturated Zone, and Recharge to an Unconfined Aquifer
Two experiments were conducted in conjunction with a 23-day aquifer test made in south-central Arizona to determine (1) water loss from a natural channel and (2) flow through a 330-foot-thick...
Modeling Flow in an Ephemeral Stream Channel
A particularly distinguishing characteristic of ephemeral streamflow is the large role played by infiltration. Infiltration interacts in a complex way with channel flow to control the...
Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Complex 2020 Master Plan
The purpose of this plan is to identify and analyze alternatives for the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Complex for dredging deepwater channels and developing new land area that will serve...
The Use of Thematic Mapper Data for the Identification and Analysis of Small Island Land Covers: The Case of Block Island
This paper describes the classification (unsupervised) of a portion of the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) scene covering Block Island, Rhode Island and surrounding waters. The Landsat system...
Teaching Open Channel Design with Programmable Pocket Calculators
The goal of the basic open channel flow course is to present the theory of steady flow of water in open channels and some channel design practice. This paper presents the evolution of...
Comparing Flood Stage-Discharge Data?Be Careful!
A long term stage-discharge record is extremely valuable data. However, simplified applications of long term records to draw sweeping conclusions about man's effects should be avoided,...
Prediction of Shoaling in Estuarial Channels: A Microcomputer Application
Shoaling rates at three predominant areas of sedimentation in the Hooghly River estuary, India, have been predicted using a sediment transport model run on an IBM compatible microcomputer....
Computer-Based Design of River Bank Protection
A study using the FLUVIAL-11 computer model was made for the Rillito River in order to determine the design configuration for the bank protection which must contain the design flood and...
Eight Open Channel Flow Programs for the Apple IIe Microcomputer
The purpose of this paper is to present eight programs in hydraulics and hydrology suitable for running on the Apple IIe and Apple IIc microcomputers. The programs are: Flood 1, Flood...
Water Surface Profiles in Compound Channels
The paper explores the use of the proposed compound channel Froude number in problems of water surface profile computation. It can be used not only to determine critical depth and to identify...
Boundary Shear Stress in a Meandering Channel
Longitudinal and transverse velocity, bed shear, and water surface elevation were studied in a fixed-bed, meandering, laboratory channel with naturally varying, non-prismatic cross sectional...
Computation of Gradually-Varied Flows in Channel Networks
For computing steady-state, gradually-varied flows, a new algorithm is presented which allows solution of the entire channel system simultaneously, and unlike other available methods,...
Analyses of Sediment Transport Data by Microcomputer Software
The MINITAB statistical software project has been popularly used on mainframe computers since 1972. In June 1984, a subset of the program was made available for the IBM-PC microcomputer;...
Explicit Hydraulic Modeling of Sedimentation Transients in Alluvial Channels
An explicit finite difference numerical scheme is used in this study to model sediment transients in alluvial channels. The governing equations are momentum equation and continuity equation...
Flood Routing Through Rock Dumps in Natural Channels
The paper deals with flow through rockfill to analyze the problem of flood routing through large masses of waste rock from mining operations dumped in natural channels. Rock dumps in ephemerous...
Explicit Finite Element Model for Long Water Waves
An explicit finite element model for free-surface flow is presented. The model is capable of simulating long waves of various orders of approximation in one and two space dimensions. The...
A Unique Communication System for Aerial Ropeways
The basic principles of operation of a Double Reversible Aerial Tramway are introduced. A brief note is given explaining a safety circuit or survey current used on the haul rope, since...
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