Upper Boundary Conditions for Overland Flow
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 116, Issue 7
Abstract
A laboratory experiment is done to learn more about the influence of upstream boundary conditions on the hydraulics of overland flow under rainfall. The experiment is done on an impermeable plane 1-m wide, with a rainfall simulator that generates a uniformly distributed and time-invariant geometrical rainfall pattern over a length L measured along the plane (from x=O to x=L; x=O is defined as the upslope limit of the applied rainfall). Results show the importance of considering upstream boundary conditions, for gentle slopes, other than the most frequently used h(O,t)=O for O, where h(x, t) is the flow depth as a function of position x and time t. The observed nonzero water depth at x=O and the consequent increase of water depth over the surface radically change the overland flow process over the slope.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 116 • Issue 7 • July 1990
Pages: 951 - 957
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Copyright © 1990 ASCE.
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Published online: Jul 1, 1990
Published in print: Jul 1990
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