Abstract
This paper presents an experimental study on thedevelopment of an efficient energy dissipator ascompared to Garde's energy dissipator (Garde et al.1986) for pipe outlets. The recommended designs werelaboratory tested on scale models with pipe outletdiameter of 10 cm and 7.5 cm for Froude number rangingfrom 1.70 to 5.50. The performance of the newdissipator improved tremendously by using new shapes,sizes and locations of the appurtenances for the samelength of stilling basin. This was possible due tobetter spreading of efflux jet by using a propersplitter block. The formation of a strong vortexinfront of the solid impact wall, in place of a grid,and an additional horizontal shear at the bottomproduced more fine grained eddies and turbulence,which finally reduced the energy of the outgoing flow. The low bottom velocities at the end of the basinresulted in reduction of the scour. The performanceof various models has been compared by estimating thescour index based on maximum depth of scour and itslocation at the end of run time.
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