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Air-water flow in a plain stilling basin below smooth and stepped chutes

In recent decades, stepped chutes followed by a stilling basin became a standard for spillways of dams. The comprehensive knowledge of stepped chute approach flows on internal air-water flow properties of the hydraulic jump is still too limited for an appr ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2022

Bemessungsbeispiele von Tosbecken unterhalb von Treppenschussrinnen = Design examples of stilling basins downstream of stepped spillways

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Ivan Stojnic

Advances of roller compacted concrete (RCC) in the construction of concrete dams has significantly influenced the development of stepped spillways. The latter are now more frequently implemented in the rocky abutments of embankment dams. The energy dissipa ...

2021

Hydraulic design of classical stilling basins downstream of stepped chutes

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

New design information regarding the hydraulic behaviour of classical stilling basins downstream of stepped chutes is presented and discussed. An extensive experimental campaign revealed that classical stilling basins preceded by stepped chutes cannot be a ...

2020

Effect of 30-Degree Sloping Smooth and Stepped Chute Approach Flow on the Performance of a Classical Stilling Basin

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

Advances in dam construction techniques have significantly increased the number of stepped spillways implemented worldwide. Although stepped chutes provide enhanced energy dissipation along the chute, as compared to smooth chutes, an adequate energy dissip ...

2020

Stilling Basin Performance Downstream of Stepped Spillways

Ivan Stojnic

Advances in dam construction techniques have significantly increased the number of implemented stepped spillways worldwide. A key hydraulic feature of a stepped chute, compared to a smooth chute, is the enhanced energy dissipation resulting in a reduced re ...

EPFL2020

Bemessung von klassischen Tosbecken unterhalb von Treppenschussrinnen

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

Aufgrund des Fortschritts im Talsperrenbau mit Walzbeton (RCC) werden weltweit häufig Treppenschussrinnen erstellt. Nach jeder Schussrinne ist ein hydraulisches Bauwerk zur Energiedissipation vorzusehen, beispielsweise ein Tosbecken. Obwohl die Hydraulik v ...

2020

Bottom pressure characteristics in a stilling basin downstream of a stepped spillway for two different chute slopes

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

In the last decades numerous stepped spillways were built, mostly on the downstream face of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams. Stilling basins are often used as an energy dissipater. Although the hydraulics of stepped chutes was extensively investigated ...

The University of Queensland2020

Upstream Erosion and Sediment Passage at Piano Key Weirs

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

Piano key weirs (PKWs) are a weir type characterized by an effective rating curve. Accordingly, this control structure is primarily applied at dams to increase the spillway capacity. In recent years, PKWs also have been implemented in rivers combined with ...

2019

Hydraulic Jump Downstream of a Stepped Chute: An Experimental Study

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Michael Pfister, Ivan Stojnic

The number of stepped spillways significantly increased in the past decades. Among other reasons, this is due to their energy dissipation potential leading to a reduction of the residual energy at the toe of the spillway. To date, only fragmentary designed ...

2019

Kariba plunge pool rehabilitation

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Azin Amini, Claudia Ylla Arbos, Ivan Stojnic

The Kariba Dam is a 128 m high arch dam located on the Zambezi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It forms the Kariba lake, with a surface of 5400 km2 and a capacity of 185 km3. In the 20 years following dam construction, heavy rainfalls required frequent ...

2018

Effect of spilling from adjacent orifices on the velocity field and pressures in front of needle stop-logs

Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Cédric Bron, Ivan Stojnic

In this study, the effect of spilling from neighboring sluice gates on stop-logs was experimentally investigated on a 1:65 physical scale model comprised of a double arch dam, a reservoir area, six spillway orifices and two stop-logs. Two types of measurem ...

2018

Numerical simulation of 3D flow in right-angled confluences with bed elevation discordance in both converging channels

Ivan Stojnic

The paper studies a combined effect of bed steps (BS) in both converging channels on the 3D flow in a confluence with alpha = 90 degrees. Nine combinations of bed elevation discordance ratio values in the two channels are analysed. It is shown that: 1) a p ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016