TY - JOUR
T1 - Gradually varied open-channel flow profiles normalized by critical depth and analytically solved by using Gaussian hypergeometric functions
AU - Jan, C. D.
AU - Chen, C. L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2013.
PY - 2013/3/5
Y1 - 2013/3/5
N2 - The equation of one-dimensional gradually varied flow (GVF) in sustaining and non-sustaining open channels is normalized using the critical depth, yc, and then analytically solved by the direct integration method with the use of the Gaussian hypergeometric function (GHF). The GHFbased solution so obtained from the yc-based dimensionless GVF equation is more useful and versatile than its counterpart from the GVF equation normalized by the normal depth, yn, because the GHF-based solutions of the yc-based dimensionless GVF equation for the mild (M) and adverse (A) profiles can asymptotically reduce to the yc-based dimensionless horizontal (H) profiles as yc/yn → 0. An in-depth analysis of the yc-based dimensionless profiles expressed in terms of the GHF for GVF in sustaining and adverse wide channels has been conducted to discuss the effects of yc/yn and the hydraulic exponent N on the profiles. This paper has laid the foundation to compute at one sweep the yc-based dimensionless GVF profiles in a series of sustaining and adverse channels, which have horizontal slopes sandwiched in between them, by using the GHF-based solutions.
AB - The equation of one-dimensional gradually varied flow (GVF) in sustaining and non-sustaining open channels is normalized using the critical depth, yc, and then analytically solved by the direct integration method with the use of the Gaussian hypergeometric function (GHF). The GHFbased solution so obtained from the yc-based dimensionless GVF equation is more useful and versatile than its counterpart from the GVF equation normalized by the normal depth, yn, because the GHF-based solutions of the yc-based dimensionless GVF equation for the mild (M) and adverse (A) profiles can asymptotically reduce to the yc-based dimensionless horizontal (H) profiles as yc/yn → 0. An in-depth analysis of the yc-based dimensionless profiles expressed in terms of the GHF for GVF in sustaining and adverse wide channels has been conducted to discuss the effects of yc/yn and the hydraulic exponent N on the profiles. This paper has laid the foundation to compute at one sweep the yc-based dimensionless GVF profiles in a series of sustaining and adverse channels, which have horizontal slopes sandwiched in between them, by using the GHF-based solutions.
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U2 - 10.5194/hess-17-973-2013
DO - 10.5194/hess-17-973-2013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927758794
SN - 1027-5606
VL - 17
SP - 973
EP - 987
JO - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
JF - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
IS - 3
ER -