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Discharge Coefficient of Rectangular Broad-Crested Weirs in Narrow Channels with High Relative Length of the Threshold
 
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Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Systems, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12, S. Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
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Lesya Vovk   

Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Systems, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12, S. Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
Publication date: 2021-11-01
 
Ecol. Eng. Environ. Technol. 2021; 6:11–16
 
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Broad-crested weirs (BCW) are commonly used elements of stormwater systems and of different open-channel hydraulic structures. Specific features of stormwater drainage channels are small width, low flow depths and, accordingly, small overflow heads at weirs. Dependences of the discharge coefficient of narrow (b = 0.224 m) rectangular sharp-edged broad-crested weirs with vertical walls, threshold height of 0.05 m and threshold length of 0.05 – 0.2 m are obtained experimentally. Experimental values of the discharge coefficient are approximated by the power-law functions of relative length of the weir. At large values of the relative length of the threshold (L/h> 10) for all weirs obtained the same tendency of decreasing the discharge coefficient with increasing L/h ratio that can be explained by the enlargement of the hydraulic friction along the weir with increasing L/h ratio.