Investigating the generalizability of the results obtained from laboratory models to natural rivers for estimating the head-discharge curve

Document Type : Article frome a thesis

Authors

• Parisa Alinouri ¹
• Mohamad Bijankhan ²

¹ Master's degree student, Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Imam Khomeini International University

² Associate Professor of Imam Khomeini International University, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Water Engineering, Qazvin, Iran

10.30495/wej.2023.5830

Abstract

Abstract
Introduction:
Researchers have performed many Experimental and theoretical studies to estimate river-stage-discharge curves using the manning roughness coefficient. In natural rivers, in flood conditions, with increasing flow rate, water flows out of the central canal through the floodplains, thus the shape of the river and roughness coefficient change.
Methods:
In this research, nine laboratory models and six natural rivers data were used to examine the accuracy of different Divided Channel Methods, DCMs, of rivers’ stage-discharge formulas to calculate the roughness. The cross section of rivers along the route would change significantly, therefore, the method with the least sensitivity to cross-sectional shape changes has the more generalizability. In the process of this research, the Manning coefficient was calculated using different methods and various laboratory data.
Findings:
After reviewing the results of the different DCM methods, SC-SEV, SC-SIV, SC-SIH techniques were found as the less sensitive methods to cross-sectional changes to determine the roughness coefficient.
 

Keywords

• Manning roughness coefficient
• cross sectional shape
• floodplain
• DCM method

20.1001.1.20086377.1402.16.57.3.1

Main Subjects

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