Hydraulic engineering

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Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to cause the movement of the fluids. This area of civil engineering is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals, and levees, and to both sanitary and environmental engineering. Hydraulic engineering is the application of the principles of fluid mechanics to problems dealing with the collection, storage, control, transport, regulation, measurement, and use of water. Before beginning a hydraulic engineering project, one must figure out how much water is involved. The hydraulic engineer is concerned with the transport of sediment by the river, the interaction of the water with its alluvial boundary, and the occurrence of scour and deposition. "The hydraulic engineer actually develops conceptual des

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The interface mixing layer and the tidal dynamics at the eastern part of the Strait of Gibraltar

Elisa Bruque Pozas

A non-hydrostatic numerical model forced by tides has been adapted to the Strait of Gibraltar area to investigate the dynamics of the interface layer in the eastern part of the strait, namely the area that extends from the main sill of Camarinal to the eastern exit of the strait. The model reproduces the tidal oscillations of the interface thickness and the mean depth, showing that the westward barotropic tide raises the interface and reduces its thickness, thus being the physical mechanism that re-stratifies the water column. Several processes are involved in the thickening and sinking tidal phase of the interface: (1) the eastward horizontal advection from Tangier basin, located west of Camarinal sill, where the huge dissipation associated with hydraulic transitions generates a remarkable mixing layer, (2) entrainment as the interface waters progress towards the Mediterranean Sea and (3) internal friction associated with the large amplitude internal waves radiated into the Mediterranean. Some biologically-related implications of the interface dynamics are also examined. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Elsevier Science Bv2013

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Junction chamber at vortex drop shaft: case study of Cossonay

Gaetano Crispino, David Dorthe, Thierry Fuchsmann, Corrado Gisonni, Michael Pfister

The drainage network of the city of Cossonay (Switzerland) is currently being adapted for future needs. In particular, it is required to drain increased storm discharges due to a population augmentation and to provide an adequate concept to overcome unfavorable geotechnical conditions. Vortex drop shafts are sewer manholes commonly applied in steep urbanized topographies to connect conduits across large elevation differences. In Cossonay, the existing 48 m high vortex drop shaft, with a diameter of 1.5 m, allowed the storm discharge to flow from the city to a watercourse issued at half of the valley height. The discharge capacity was initially assumed as 4.1 m3/s, but frequent pulsations and choking phenomena implied a reduced effective capacity of around 3.0 m3/s. A new planned vortex drop shaft will collect the supercritical inflows of four collectors in the old City Centre and spill them through a shaft of roughly 120 m height, restituting the flow at the valley bottom. It was pre-designed using FLOW-3D simulations to estimate the hydraulic features of the incoming flows and to predict the hydraulic behavior of the upper elements (before the water enters the shaft). The simulation thus included a novel junction chamber type and a steep inlet channel before the spiral intake. The numerical simulations provided a first layout of the structure that was then validated by physical model tests. The physical model was built at the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

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Flow measurements in sewer systems based on image analysis: automatic flow velocity algorithm

David Andrew Barry, David Jeanbourquin, Salim Kayal, Laurent Son Nguyen, Luca Rossi, Daniel Sage

Discharges of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and stormwater are recognized as an important source of environmental contamination. However, the harsh sewer environment and particular hydraulic conditions during rain events reduce the reliability of traditional flow measurement probes. An in situ system for sewer water flow monitoring based on video images was evaluated. Algorithm to determine water velocities was developed based on image-processing techniques. The image-based water velocity algorithm identifies surface features and measures their positions with respect to real world coordinates. A web-based user interface and a three-tier system architecture enable remote configuration of the cameras and the image-processing algorithms in order to calculate automatically flow velocity on-line. Results of investigations conducted in a CSO were presented. The system was found to measure reliably water velocities, thereby providing the means to understand particular hydraulic behaviors.

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