Design of Minimum Seepage-Loss Nonpolygonal Canal Sections with Drainage Layer at Shallow Depth
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 130, Issue 2
Abstract
Analytical solutions exist for the seepage discharge from polygonal and nonpolygonal canal sections underlain by a drainage layer at a hydraulically infinite depth. These solutions lead to underestimation of the seepage discharge if a drainage layer occurs at a shallow depth. This paper presents solutions for seepage discharge from circular and exponential sections overlying a shallow drainage layer. The discharge has been calculated by a finite-difference-based numerical solution of the differential governing the seepage flow. The phreatic boundaries of the flow domain were described in terms of two parameters that were estimated by a minimization process. Such seepage computations were performed for a large number of independent dimensionless variables of the section geometry. Subjecting the computed seepage to regression analyses, explicit equations for seepage discharge loss have been obtained. Using these seepage loss equations, the design variables for minimum seepage loss have been obtained. The use of the design equations has been illustrated by design examples.
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Received: Jul 10, 2002
Accepted: Aug 22, 2003
Published online: Mar 15, 2004
Published in print: Apr 2004
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