Gradually-varied Flow Profiles in Open Channels

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Synopsis
Gradually-varied flow (GVF) is a steady non-uniform flow in an open channel with gradual changes in its water surface elevation. The evaluation of GVF profiles under a specific flow discharge is very important in hydraulic engineering. This book proposes a novel approach to analytically solve the GVF profiles by using the direct integration and Gaussian hypergeometric function. Both normal-depth- and critical-depth-based dimensionless GVF profiles are presented. The novel approach has laid the foundation to compute at one sweep the GVF profiles in a series of sustaining and adverse channels, which may have horizontal slopes sandwiched in between them.
Copyright:
2014

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ISBN-13:
9783642352423
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Technology, Mathematics and Statistics
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Bookshare Staff
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