Water and Energy International
SCOPUS
  • Year: 1961
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 10

A New Discharge Formula for Waste-Weirs (Byewashes)

  • Author:
  • N. S. Govinda Rao, D. Murali Dhar
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 908 to 917

Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Section, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12, India.

Abstract

This paper presents a simple discharge formula for waste-weirs (byewashes) which are normally used as flood escapes in small tanks. This formula could also be used for computing the discharge of a chute spillway.