Abstract: Flood waves resulting from dam break and spillway gate malfunction may have dramatic impacts. Two related cases are the overtopping of a dam by flood waves and a sudden water release down a stepped cascade. In each instance, some energy dissipation takes place and classical dam break theory are inappropriate. Both cases were investigated in large-size facilities and in a prototype. Ne...

Although field observations of sudden spillway releases highlighted strong aeration of dam break wave flows, no study investigated these two-phase flow characteristics. New original experiments were conducted down a 24 m long stepped waterways. Dam break wave propagation showed an equivalent flow resistance similar to steady flow conditions (f ~ 0.05). Detailed unsteady air-water flow measureme...

The goal of this research was to determine the impact a pooled and flat stepped spillway on energy losses. FLOW3D, which is computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program, with mesh size 0.015 mm used for purpose. First, code tested against an available experimental model data both water flow depth inception point position. outcome precisely shows agreement laboratory work. Second, dissipation resi...

Abstract The spillways are one of the most important hydraulic structures used in river engineering, dam construction, irrigation, and drainage engineering projects. Recently, a new type such with circular crest has been proposed. In this paper, properties crested stepped spillway (CCSS) including flow pattern, distribution velocity on pressure, turbulence intensity, discharge coefficient ( $${...

Recently the design flows of many dams have been re-evaluated, resulting in spills often larger than the original ones. In many cases, occurrence of revised flows would result in dam overtopping because of insufficient storage and spillway capacity of reservoirs. Embankment dams whilst common are more likely to fail than other dam types when overtopped in an uncontrolled manner because of breac...

Abstract A hydraulic-stepped spillway was designed using an aeration basin to provide aerated flow the stepped utilizing a hydraulic jump. However, through entrance of might separate from first step top and impact downstream steps at large unit discharge, causing so-called jet flow. new experimental study conducted better understand in hydraulic-jump-stepped with comparisons conventional spillw...