Abstract

Since the cylindrical and circular crested weirs are economical and easily made compared to some other weirs, they can be used to measure the flow velocity, the water discharge and flow surface control structures in the canals and reservoirs. In this paper, the hydraulic properties of the cylindrical and circular crested weirs, such as the discharge coefficient, the depth on the crest of the weir and the energy loss in 18 laboratory models categorized in 5 categories have been investigated. The results of the experiments indicated that in both the cylindrical and circular crested weirs by increasing the total partial head, the discharge coefficient increases and any changes in the upstream wall slope has no effect on the discharge coefficient. Also, the partial energy loss more occurs in the cylindrical weirs than the half shaped cylindrical weirs and by increasing the downstream inclination angle, the partial energy loss increases subsequently. The partial flow depth on the crest of both the cylindrical and half shaped cylindrical weirs is equal to 0.7 and by increasing of the upstream inclination angle, the partial flow depth on the crest in the values greater than 0.6, increases slightly and the downstream inclination angle changes of the partial flow depth has no effect on the crest.

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