Effects of Converging Sidewalls on Skimming Flow over Converging Stepped Spillway

A numerical study is conducted for converging stepped spillways with various spillway slopes, sidewall convergence and flow discharges to understand the influences of converging sidewalls on skimming flows. Compared with the traditional uniform-width stepped spillway, the converging sidewall changes the skimming flow features by generating standing waves on the free-surface, curving the mainstream streamlines and squeezing and distorting the bottom rotations. For free-surface, mainstream and bottom rotations, the width of disturbed regions by the converging sidewall varies, with that for bottom rotations being 1.5 times that for mainstream and 3 times that for free-surface. The variation rules of disturbed region widths along the spillway are obtained, and the maximum widths increase as the convergence angle and incoming flow discharge increase, and the spillway slope decreases. Three equations are established for predicting the maximum widths of disturbed regions for free-surface, mainstream and bottom rotations of skimming flow. Since the disturbed region of skimming flow generated by the converging sidewall is characterized by strong standing waves, high flow velocity and low air concentration, appropriate engineering measurements should be taken for the disturbed region to meet the challenges to overtopping, energy dissipation and cavitation control..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Applied Sciences - 12(2022), 15, p 7868

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yuling Chen [VerfasserIn]
Guangyuan Liu [VerfasserIn]
Shangtuo Qian [VerfasserIn]
Hui Xu [VerfasserIn]
Jiangang Feng [VerfasserIn]
Xiaosheng Wang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biology (General)
Bottom rotations
Chemistry
Converging sidewall
Disturbed region
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Free-surface
Mainstream
Physics
Standing wave
T
Technology

doi:

10.3390/app12157868

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ016718518