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Gradually Varied Flow Profiles

This document discusses gradually varied flow profiles and how they can be expressed in terms of critical slope rather than friction slope. It presents an improved approach that shows the flow depth gradient is strictly limited to values outside the range of the bed slope and critical slope. It also provides online calculators to help apply these concepts.

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Gradually Varied Flow Profiles

This document discusses gradually varied flow profiles and how they can be expressed in terms of critical slope rather than friction slope. It presents an improved approach that shows the flow depth gradient is strictly limited to values outside the range of the bed slope and critical slope. It also provides online calculators to help apply these concepts.

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Gradually varied flow profiles

using critical slope


and online calculators
Victor M. Ponce and Rosa D. Aguilar
January 2013

ABSTRACT
Gradually varied flow water-surface
profiles are expressed in terms of the
critical slope Sc. In this way, the flowdepth gradient dy/dx is shown to be
strictly limited to values outside the range
encompassed by Sc andSo, in which So is
the bed slope. This new approach
improves and completes the definition of
flow-depth-gradient ranges in the analysis
of water surface profiles. Online
calculators are provided to round up the
experience.

1. INTRODUCTION
Computations of gradually varied flow (GVF) are part of
the routine practice of hydraulic engineering. The GVF
equation describes steady gradually varied flow in open
channels (Chow 1959; Henderson 1966). The
conventional GVF equation is expressed in terms of bed
slopeSo, friction slope Sf, and Froude number F. Herein,
the GVF equation is alternatively expressed in terms of
bed slope So, critical slope Sc, and Froude number F.
Analysis of this equation reveals that the flow-depth
gradient dy/dx is strictly limited to values outside the
range encompassed by So and Sc. This improves and
completes the definition of flow-depth-gradient ranges in
the analysis of water surface profiles.

2. GRADUALLY VARIED FLOW EQUATION


The GVF equation is (Chow 1959, p. 220; Henderson
1966, p. 130):

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