Use of brink depth in discharge measurement

2008-01-01
Tiğrek, Şahnaz
Firat, C. Ersen
Ger, A. Metin
The behavior of free surface flow at a rectangular free overfall is studied experimentally to obtain a relation between the brink depth and the flow rate. A series of experiments were conducted in a tilting flume with wide range of flow rates covering subcritical, critical, supercritical regimes, and two different roughnesses in order to develop a relationship between the discharge and the brink depth. An equation is proposed to determine the flow rate using the brink depth for a channel of known roughness and bed slope. Introduction
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Citation Formats
Ş. Tiğrek, C. E. Firat, and A. M. Ger, “Use of brink depth in discharge measurement,” JOURNAL OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING, pp. 89–95, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52584.