Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

The Use of Floor Blocks to Improve the Hydraulic Performance of Collector Channels of a Side-Channel Spillway

  • Author:
  • Jesus Gracia-Sanchez, Javier Osnaya-Romero, Abel Jimenez-Castaeda, Victor Franco
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 24 to 24

(Dam Engineering, Vol. XVIII, Issue 4, March 2008, pp. 311-324)

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on a collector channel of a side spillway. It is shown that the use of floor blocks along the channel bottom improves hydraulic performance noticeably, as the magnitude of the pressure fluctuations is diminished and the free surface of the water becomes uniform in the collector channel.

Keywords

Side-channel spillway, Channel collector, Floor blocks, Pressure Fluctuation