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The determination of flow resistance for open channels remains a challenge in practices. In this research, an experimental study was carried out to investigate the hydraulic roughness characteristics in an open channel. The experimental... more
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      MechanicsGeotechnical EngineeringHydraulic RoughnessFlow resistance
The estimation of critical shear stress is actually based on the measurement of the corresponding critical water discharge. Incipient motion was recorded by a video camera and the recorded pictures were treated by an automatic image... more
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      ChemistryWaterMultidisciplinaryCritical Resolved Shear Stress
The purpose of the research was to quantify characteristics of a subcritical flow at a rectangular sharpcrested side weir in a rectangular main channel using non-invasive measuring techniques based on the visualization of the flow.... more
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      Civil EngineeringGeologyMechanicsVisualization
The SEDUNIT Project is a Spanish National Research focused on the study of the sediment transport in combined sewer systems. The main objective of this study is to advance in the understanding of the sediment accumulation and erosion... more
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      Environmental ScienceWitErosionSediment
The determination of flow resistance for open channels remains a challenge in practices. In this research, an experimental study was carried out to investigate the hydraulic roughness characteristics in an open channel. The experimental... more
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      MechanicsFlow resistanceOpen Channel Flow
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      Environmental ScienceFlushingBed loadBed Load
The SEDUNIT Project is a Spanish National Research focused on the study of the sediment transport in combined sewer systems. The main objective of this study is to advance in the understanding of the sediment accumulation and erosion... more
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      Environmental ScienceWit
Sedimentation of fine muddy material in culverts and storm sewers becomes an important issue in Texas coastal plain shallow-grade drain systems. It leads to a reduction inflow capacity with time and an associated high cost of cleaning. It... more
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      Environmental ScienceStormwaterStormCulvert
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      ErosionFlushingSediment
Densimetric Froude (Fr) is the minimum velocity required to prevent sediment deposition in pipes. Prediction of Fr is of utmost importance in numerous applications in civil engineering. In this paper through using a new hybrid method.... more
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The efficiency and economical performance of sewer systems is an essential issue in urban drainage. The need for sewers to carry sediment has been recognized for many years. One of the main problems in designing sewerage systems is the... more
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    • Engineering
This study of bed-load transport was undertaken on the basis of laboratory data in two states, i.e., limit of deposition and deposited bed, by using new design criteria, whereby, compared to earlier similar studies, fewer parameters were... more
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      EngineeringMathematical SciencesPhysical sciences
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      HydraulicsErosionIncipient Motion
A moderate rainfall event can lead to harsh flash floods in most of the compact cities. Present urbanization happening in these cities creates an imbalance between generated urban runoff volume and effective drainage capacity. For the... more
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      GeographyClimate ChangeFlood Risk ManagementUrban Planning
A moderate rainfall event can lead to harsh flash floods in most of the compact cities. Present urbanization happening in these cities creates an imbalance between generated urban runoff volume and effective drainage capacity. For the... more
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      GeographyClimate ChangeFlood Risk ManagementUrban Planning
The transport of sediment in open channels is a complex process, and the physics of this phenomenon have not been completely explored. The majority of research work on sediment transport has been concentrated on beds formed of the same... more
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New experimentals work were conducted to study the effects of sediment deposits’ thickness on the incipient motion of particles in a rigid rectangular channel. The results show that the deposits’ thickness significantly affects the... more
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      HydraulicsErosionIncipient Motion
The work presented here is an extension of previous papers that updated the calibration of round (Armco-type) meter gates (three sizes: 0.30, 0.46, and 0.61 m), developed ratings for rectangular gates (two sizes: 0.46 and 0.61 m) on round... more
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      Civil EngineeringIrrigation and Drainage EngineeringInterdisciplinary Engineering
Sistem drainase utama yang mencakup hampir seluruh bagian barat dari kota lama Makassar, yang terhubungkan dengan sungai Jeneberang melalui waduk pantai dengan kapasitas 5 m 3 /detik-30 m 3 /detik. Pada beberapa bagian dari sistem ini... more
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    • Physics
Backward erosion piping involves the gradual removal of granular material under the action of water flow from the foundation of a dam or levee, whereby shallow pipes are formed that grow in the direction opposite to the flow. This... more
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      GeologySedimentSoil sciences
Monitoring sewer sediments is necessary to better understand sedimentation and erosion processes. Sonar is one of the available techniques to proceed to sewer sediment measurements. Extraction of numerical data, implementation of a new... more
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      Civil EngineeringHuman GeographyUrban Water
Critical shear stress and threshold stream power are two important soil characteristics controlling detachment of soil particles by runoff and have been used in process-based erosion models such as WEPP, GUEST and EUROSEM. In this... more
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      GeologyCatenaSoil sciences
The condition of incipient motion and deposition are of the essential issues for the study of sediment transport. This phenomenon is of great importance to hydraulic engineers for designing sewer, drainage as well as other rigid boundary... more
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      Civil EngineeringSediment transportHydrodynamicsOpen channel Hydraulic
Drainage systems must be designed in a way to minimize undesired problems such as decrease in hydraulic capacity of the channel, blockage and transport of pollutants due to deposition of sediment. Channel design considering self-cleansing... more
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      KineticsMultidisciplinaryWater Science and TechnologyChemical Precipitation
May proposed two dimensionless parameters of transport (η) and mobility (Fs) for self-cleansing design of sewers with deposited bed condition. The relationships between those two parameters were introduced in conditional form for specific... more
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      MultidisciplinaryWater Science and Technology
The first impression of the studies in this paper is that the results of tests in the high-speed flume present errors of an order unhelpful for calibrating a flow measuring device. The results of the Thames Water Utilities (TWU) prototype... more
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Wastewater infrastructure systems deteriorate over time due to a combination of physical and chemical factors. Failure of these critical structures can cause major social, environmental, and economic impacts. To avoid such problems,... more
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A series of experiments were carried out with real wastewater in a pilot flume located at A Coruña wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) (Spain). A full scale model was developed to test a circular (300 mm inner diameter) and an equivalent... more
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      Water PurificationMultidisciplinarySpainCities
The current study aims at the development of an incipient motion equation and a self-cleansing design chart based on the critical shear stress approach for a rectangular channel. Data from previous experimental work on incipient motion... more
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      SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN RIVER/DRAINSelf-cleansing Urban Drainage
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      Environmental ScienceHydraulic systems and structures
The flow resistance of the existing modules in the bio-ecological drainage system (BIOECODS) is high and may lead to flood instead of its mitigation. As part of efforts to enhance the performance of the system, the river engineering and... more
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    • Stormwater management
Social media applications such as twitter, face book, blogs etc are used by the people extensively to give their opinions on everything. Study on these opinions is the major research trend and this research will help to understand the... more
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      Sentiment AnalysisEthnic CleansingSocial Media Sentiment AnalysisOPINION MINING AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
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Drainage Modules are considered as potential substitutes to the traditional hard concrete channel systems known to provide flow attenuations in the Bio Ecological Drainage System (BIOECODS) and ensure eco-friendly drainage systems that... more
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      sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)Flow resistanceBioecods
In the towns having sewer system, there had been lot of hue and cry on spilling of domestic waste water in the streets from manholes causing environmental pollution and serious health hazard. The problem is mainly caused by sediment... more
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Self-cleansing is a design criterion for drainage systems that mitigates the continuous deposition of sediments at the channel bottom. In recent decades, in order to improve the knowledge for determination of self-cleansing conditions... more
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      Sediment transportSelf-cleansing Urban Drainage
Determine the flow resistance parameters are important in hydraulic calculations of mountain area with steep slops. The purpose of this study is investigation the effect of slope, speed, depth and size of roughness on the manning... more
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      Acid Mine DrainageSustainable DrainageDrainage EngineeringIrrigation & Drainage
Hydraulic flushing is the most widely used method for sediment removal in sewer. However, open storm sewer tend to have longer flushing duration as compared to closed conduit sewer. This is due to storm water could enter more directly and... more
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      Sediment transportSediment
In the paper the results of the extension of the entropy velocity distribution to a data set collected in field and relative to a natural rivers are presented. The analysis represent the first attempt to use the entropy model to describe... more
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Cámara que se instala en los cambios de dirección, diámetro o pendiente en las tuberías de alcantarillado de la red pública, la misma sirve para permitir la inspección y mantenimiento de los colectores. Visitable a través de una abertura... more
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      HydraulicsHydraulic and HydrologyUrban Drainagesustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)
A moderate rainfall event can lead to harsh flash floods in most of the compact cities. Present urbanization happening in these cities create an imbalance between generated urban runoff volume and effective drainage capacity. For the... more
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      Climate ChangeFlood Risk ManagementUrban PlanningMunicipal Solid Waste Management
The current literature on incipient motion are largely for loose boundary channel with unlimited depth of sediment as compares to rigid boundary channel with limited sediment depth. A few existing literature for rigid boundary channel... more
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    • Sediment transport
In the present paper flush cleaning waves in a reservoir sewer in Offenbach/Germany were investigated to analyse the behaviour of the wave and its cleaning effect for different boundary conditions. Therefore a measuring campaign was... more
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Sewer channels or reservoir sewers in a combined sewer system who are temporary flooded with stormwater accumulate sediments and pollutants. These deposits reduce the hydraulic capability of the sewer. The shear stress at the bottom... more
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A method of achieving a dimensionless collapse of erosion-rate data for cohesive sediments is proposed and shown to work well for data collected in flume-erosion tests on mixtures of sand and mud (silt plus clay sized particles) for a... more
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    • Erosion
This paper presents an investigation on the scouring effects of flushing waves on sewer sediment deposits in order to derive guidelines on the design and set-up of flushing devices in sewer systems and in stormwater storage tanks. The... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringApplied MathematicsComputational Fluid DynamicsComputational Fluid Mechanics
In this paper, the results of experimental work that has been conducted to study the incipient motion of cohesive sediments are reported. A layer of clay having 15 cm thickness and 2m length was laid down in a flume. A number of... more
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    • Paddy Soil