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A theory for free outflow beneath radial gates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Bruce E. Larock
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis

Abstract

An analysis is made of the free outflow of fluid from those underflow gates known as radial or Tainter gates. Attention is focused on a correct treatment of the effects of gate curvature and of gravity on the flow. The rapidly convergent, iterative solution is based on the combined use of conformal mapping and the Riemann-Hilbert solution to a mixed boundary-value problem. A limited comparison with some experimental results shows agreement to be good.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1970 Cambridge University Press

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