(Download) "Gradually-varied Flow Profiles in Open Channels" by Chyan-Deng Jan ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Gradually-varied Flow Profiles in Open Channels
- Author : Chyan-Deng Jan
- Release Date : January 08, 2014
- Genre: Physics,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5645 KB
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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