Exploring Hydraulic Impacts of Downstream Water Levels on the Drainage Capacity of a Stormwater Pipe
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 150, Issue 5
Abstract
This paper designs and builds a stormwater pipe-river/channel experimental system at the first attempt to observe hydraulic dynamics between pipe flow and downstream water levels under different steady state conditions. In addition, a three-dimensional (3D) model is developed to facilitate the understanding of this complex hydraulic interaction, and the reliability of a widely used one-dimensional (1D) model is first investigated. Experiment and simulation results show that (1) a high downstream water level can increase pipe flow capacity at the early stage, and the pipe flow is followed by a slightly downward trend and finally rapidly decreased, (2) pipe flows exhibit complex behaviors during the transition from nonfull to full pipe flow by altering flow area and velocity, and (3) the observed flows are significantly lower than those from the 1D model for the nonfull pipe flow scenario. This study offers insights to the underlying complex hydraulic properties between pipe flows and downstream water levels, and also shows that the 1D model is insufficient to reveal such an interaction process, which may underestimate the urban flooding risk.
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Data Availability Statement
All data, models, and code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFC3202602), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 52179080), and NSFC-RGC Joint Research Scheme (JRS Project Nos. 52261160379 and N_PolyU599/22).
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Volume 150 • Issue 5 • September 2024
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Received: Nov 27, 2023
Accepted: Apr 10, 2024
Published online: Jun 17, 2024
Published in print: Sep 1, 2024
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