Abstract
Hydropower operations can induce significant variation of velocity field upstream of intakes and may lead to fish entrainment into turbines. In this study, the flow fields upstream of a high dam in China under different intake and spillway operation patterns were investigated theoretically using potential flow solution and computational fluid dynamic modeling, and experimentally in a 1:50-scale physical model. Flow fields induced by multiple intakes and by a line sink tends to be the same at about two times of the distance of adjacent operating intake upstream of the intakes. Different operation scenarios were analyzed to improve the general understanding of characteristics of upstream flow and to reduce the risk of fish entrainment. The extent of the risk zone for fish entrainment defined by specified thresholds of velocity and acceleration indicate that smaller water depth over submerged intake means a higher risk of fish entrainment.
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