Flow resistance in sinuous or irregular channels
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- 1 January 1960
- report
- Published by US Geological Survey
Abstract
The resistance to fully developed turbulent flow at constant depth in an open channel increases as the square of the mean velocity as long as the boundary conditions remain completely unchanged. The presence of the free water surface allows the possibility of departure from the relationship of resistance to the square of the velocity. Experimental evidence is given, which is in quantitative agreement with fluid dynamic theory, that such departure may be abrupt, with a marked increase of resistance. These departures are observed under conditions of boundary and flow which occur commonly in natural rivers.It is shown that the condition under which this discontinuous increase in resistance occurs is definable by the mean Froude number for the whole flow which may be as small as 0.4. At this initial state, the rate of resistance increase with the square of the velocity may be more than double.The phenomenon, which is absent...Keywords
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