Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel

Flow estimation in alluvial channel is one of the most common practices in river engineering. A lot of methods are introduced in water resources field towards increasing the accuracy of determining the roughness coefficient as well as estimating the flow based on sediment size. However, most of t...

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Main Author: Lee, Wai Hong
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spelling my-usm-ep.435672019-04-12T05:26:10Z Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel 2013-10 Lee, Wai Hong TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Flow estimation in alluvial channel is one of the most common practices in river engineering. A lot of methods are introduced in water resources field towards increasing the accuracy of determining the roughness coefficient as well as estimating the flow based on sediment size. However, most of these studies are mainly based on idealized laboratory conditions such as uniform flow and uniform sedimentation. These derived methods do not satisfy for channel with irregular shapes. The interest of this study is to determine the roughness coefficient in term of choices of sediment size towards non uniform sedimentation distribution in irregular channel. A few relevant well known equations are used in evaluating and comparing the flow resistance estimation. In this study, a total number of 167 sets of field data were collected. 31 sets data which collected from Sungai Jawi were used to investigate the hydraulic characteristics of Sungai Jawi. Another 143 sets field data of eight selected rivers collected from previous studies were used to evaluate the accuracy of existing well known equations for determining the flow resistance. Throughout the analysis, none of the method estimates the flow accurately. Sediment mode size, d65, was proposed to represent the sediment mixture for flow estimation purpose. At the end of this study, an equation had been developed based on the total 167 sets of data. This equation is intended to determine the flow resistance with the ratio of hydraulic radius and averaged flow depth to the sediment mode size. The results show an improvement to the discrepancy of flow estimation based on the applicable d65. 2013-10 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/43567/ http://eprints.usm.my/43567/1/Lee%20Wai%20Hong24.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Awam
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topic TA1-2040 Engineering (General)
Civil engineering (General)
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Civil engineering (General)
Lee, Wai Hong
Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
description Flow estimation in alluvial channel is one of the most common practices in river engineering. A lot of methods are introduced in water resources field towards increasing the accuracy of determining the roughness coefficient as well as estimating the flow based on sediment size. However, most of these studies are mainly based on idealized laboratory conditions such as uniform flow and uniform sedimentation. These derived methods do not satisfy for channel with irregular shapes. The interest of this study is to determine the roughness coefficient in term of choices of sediment size towards non uniform sedimentation distribution in irregular channel. A few relevant well known equations are used in evaluating and comparing the flow resistance estimation. In this study, a total number of 167 sets of field data were collected. 31 sets data which collected from Sungai Jawi were used to investigate the hydraulic characteristics of Sungai Jawi. Another 143 sets field data of eight selected rivers collected from previous studies were used to evaluate the accuracy of existing well known equations for determining the flow resistance. Throughout the analysis, none of the method estimates the flow accurately. Sediment mode size, d65, was proposed to represent the sediment mixture for flow estimation purpose. At the end of this study, an equation had been developed based on the total 167 sets of data. This equation is intended to determine the flow resistance with the ratio of hydraulic radius and averaged flow depth to the sediment mode size. The results show an improvement to the discrepancy of flow estimation based on the applicable d65.
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author Lee, Wai Hong
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title Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
title_short Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
title_full Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
title_fullStr Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation Of Sediment Size For Flow Estimation In Alluvial Channel
title_sort evaluation of sediment size for flow estimation in alluvial channel
granting_institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Awam
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.usm.my/43567/1/Lee%20Wai%20Hong24.pdf
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