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Uniform and Critical Flow Computations |
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| Authors: | Ramappa G. Patil J. S. R. Murthy L. K. Ghosh |
| Affiliation: | 1PhD Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. 2Professor, Dept of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. 3Additional Director, Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune 411 024, India. |
| Abstract: | The application of theory developed for direct integration of gradually varied flow equations to uniform and critical flow computation greatly reduces the computational effort. A small generalized subroutine is able to compute accurately the various parameters involved in the computation for all types of natural and constructed cross sections. Although the equations are implicit, in a majority of cases the number of iterations needed to achieve the required accuracy is less than 3. The method is even useful for computation by hand held calculators. |
| Keywords: | Critical flow Uniform flow Computation Flow measurement |