Hydraulic Modeling of High Unit Discharge Energy Dissipators
The incorporation of an efficient and economical energy dissipation device is critical with respect to the safe operation of a high unit discharge spillway. The development and design...
Model Study of Center Hill Fuse Plug Spillway
Model tests of a fuseplug spillway mounted on the fixed crest of an embankment dam were conducted to develop a satisfactory design that would fail in a orderly fashion at a prescribed...
Riprap Design at Bridges?Factor of Safety Approach
The factor of safety method offers a physically based methodology for design of riprap that relates the applied shear stress on the channel boundary to the stability of the riprap layer....
Predicting Critical Scour Stage at Bridges
After an initial level I screening process, most level II bridge scour studies result in recommendations for costly scour countermeasures. Typically, existing transportation budgets cannot...
Scour Retrofit Case Studies for Arizona
Scour retrofit involves a coordinated analysis and joint determination of action by several engineering disciplines: typically, geotechnical, hydraulic and structural engineering. The...
Selection of ?x and ?t Computational Steps for Four-Point Implicit Nonlinear Dynamic Routing Models
A major step in a successful application of unsteady flow models based on the numerical (four-point implicit, nonlinear finite-difference) solution of the complete one -dimensional Saint-Venant...
Advanced HEC-2 Modeling on Forester Creek
The goal of this paper is to share information regarding advanced modelling techniques used to solve complex hydraulic flow issues using the HEC-2 Computer Model (1990). There are several...
Modeling Critical Depth in Open Channels
This paper explores multiple critical depths. Reasons behind and characteristics of their occurrence are reviewed. A method to determine multiple critical depths is proposed for use in...
A Numerical Model for Learning Concepts of Streamflow Simulation
Numerical models are useful for demonstrating principles of open-channel flow. Such models can allow experimentation with cause-and-effect relations, testing concepts of physics and numerical...
Comparison of Advective Transport Algorithms with an Application in Suisun Bay, a Sub-Embayment of San Francisco Bay, California
This paper examines the conservative properties of several numerical treatments of the salt conservation equation. Specifically, computationally efficient first and second order Eulerian-Lagrangian...
An Optimization Approach to River Adjustments
The adjustment of alluvial channels is presented here as a non-linear optimization problem in which the ideal channel will tend to adopt an optimum configuration subject to the imposed...
Distorted Physical Models for Mixing Studies
The frictional resistance and mixing process affected by roughness bars are investigated. Specific combinations of the size and layout of the bars for various flow conditions are suggested...
Determination of Pulsating Pressures for Baldhill Dam, N.D. Spillway
Model tests of the existing Baldhill Spillway were conducted with symmetrical and asymmetrical gate openings to determine for various flow conditions the characteristics of the hydraulic...
Hydraulic Model Studies of Y-Branch
Hydraulic model studies were made for the Y-branch steel penstock located in a vertical bend. The model tests were performed for various modes of pumping and generating operation. The...
Model Study of Rio Hondo Flood Control Channel, Los Angeles, California
The Rio Hondo Flood Control Channel located within the Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) is part of a Comprehensive flood control system which includes 20 dams, 129 debris basins,...
An Improved Method for Measuring System Performance of Hydraulic Infrastructure Systems
Due to the public awareness of the importance of functioning of hydraulic infrastructure systems and the serious consequences caused by their failure, many researches were undertaken to...
Bridge-Scour Analysis Using the
A program was developed to extract hydraulic information required for bridge-scour computations, from the Water-Surface Profile computation model (WSPRO). The program is written in compiled...
Innovations and Practical Procedures for Hydraulic Model Applications in Bridge Scour Evaluations
Procedures for data conversion, and establishment of downstream boundary conditions for a hydraulic computer model for estimation of riverbed scour at bridges are presented. The data conversion...
Bri-Stars Model for Alluvial River Simulation
The Bridge StreamTube Model for Alluvial River Simulation (BRI-STARS) is a semi-two-dimensional model capable of computing alluvial scour/deposition through subcritical, supercritical,...
Practical Comparison of One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Analyses for Bridge Scour
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways is working with the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to plan, design, and construct...
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