Gravity‐Affected Potential Flows Past Spillway Flip Buckets
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 114, Issue 4
Abstract
Previous analytical studies on potential flows past spillway flip buckets have almost always been done based on the essential assumption that gravity effects on the bucket flows can be neglected. This limits their applications only to flows with very large Froude numbers past very high dams. The Riemann‐Hilbert mixed‐boundary value problem technique is employed herein to solve the gravity‐affected potential flows through curvilinear and straight segmental flip buckets. Pressure distributions along the flip buckets and exit angles of the deflecting jet are computed by solving the resulting integral equations. Experimental data on pressure distributions along the bucket have been compared with this theoretical analysis, and it is shown that the agreement is satisfactory. This is a great improvement over the previous solutions in the absence of gravity.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 114 • Issue 4 • April 1988
Pages: 409 - 427
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Copyright © 1988 ASCE.
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Published online: Apr 1, 1988
Published in print: Apr 1988
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