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The flow of a two layer fluid over a broad crested weir. August 1970.

dc.contributor.author Wood, I. R. en_US
dc.contributor.author Lai, K. K. en_US
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dc.date.issued 1970 en_US
dc.description.abstract Here the method used by Wood (1968, 1970) is extended to cover the case of the flow of a stably layered fluid from a reservoir through a contraction with a round crested weir at its min imum width. The conditions under which a single layer may be separated form a two layer system by having this lighter layer alone flowing over a weir are first examined. The conditions under which two layers continuously decrease in depth from the reservoir to and downstream of the weir are determined. It is shown that in this case the theory involves computations not only at the section of minimum width but also a section upstream of this point (the virtual point of control). For a weir shape, chosen so as to simplify the algebra, complete solutions are obtained. For the case of the flow of single layer, the depth of flow over the weir depends only on the depth of the upstream layer, and is two thirds of that depth. For the two layer system it is shown that the depth of the layers over the weir depend not only on the depth updtream but also on the width of the crest and indirectly on the geometry of the crest and the contraction. Some simple experiments were carried out to verify the major conclusions of this theory. The method presented should have applications in predicting flow in numerous engineering fields where more than one layer is flowing and where viscous effects are likely to be small. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/36338
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher University of New South Wales - Water Research Laboratory en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.source WRL Digitisation
dc.subject.other weirs en_US
dc.subject.other laminar flow en_US
dc.subject.other stratified flow en_US
dc.subject.other flow characteristics en_US
dc.title The flow of a two layer fluid over a broad crested weir. August 1970. en_US
dc.type Report en
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dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
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unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.4225/53/57a18aa79655d en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Engineering
unsw.relation.ispartofreportnumber UNSW Water Research Laboratory Report No. 116 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Wood, I. R., Water Research Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Lai, K. K., Water Research Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Civil and Environmental Engineering *
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