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The flowrate from<br />

an underflow gate<br />

depends on whether<br />

the outlet is free or<br />

drowned.<br />

V10.16 Unsteady<br />

under and over<br />

10.6 Rapidly Varied Flow 567<br />

0.6<br />

Free outflow<br />

0.5<br />

0.4<br />

C d<br />

0.3<br />

Drowned outflow<br />

0.2<br />

0.1<br />

__ y 3<br />

a = 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16<br />

__ y 1<br />

a<br />

F I G U R E 10.25 Typical discharge coefficients for underflow gates (Ref. 3).<br />

y 1<br />

q<br />

y 3<br />

a<br />

F I G U R E 10.26 Drowned outflow<br />

from a sluice gate.<br />

outflow 1or free discharge2 from a vertical sluice gate are on the order of 0.55 to 0.60 as indicated<br />

by the top line in Fig. 10.25 1Ref. 32.<br />

As indicated in Fig. 10.26, in certain situations the depth downstream of the gate is controlled<br />

by some downstream obstacle and the jet of water issuing from under the gate is overlaid by a<br />

mass of water that is quite turbulent.<br />

The flowrate for a submerged 1or drowned2 gate can be obtained from the same equation<br />

that is used for free outflow 1Eq. 10.352, provided the discharge coefficient is modified<br />

appropriately. Typical values of C d for drowned outflow cases are indicated as the series of lower<br />

curves in Fig. 10.25. Consider flow for a given gate and upstream conditions 1i.e., given y 1a2<br />

corresponding to a vertical line in the figure. With y 3a y 1a 1i.e., y 3 y 1 2 there is no head to<br />

drive the flow so that C d 0 and the <strong>fluid</strong> is stationary. For a given upstream depth 1y 1a fixed2,<br />

the value of C d increases with decreasing y 3a until the maximum value of C d is reached. This<br />

maximum corresponds to the free discharge conditions and is represented by the free outflow line<br />

so labeled in Fig. 10.25. For values of y 3a that give C d values between zero and its maximum,<br />

the jet from the gate is overlaid 1drowned2 by the downstream water and the flowrate is therefore<br />

reduced when compared with a free discharge situation. Similar results are obtained for the radial<br />

gate and drum gate.<br />

E XAMPLE 10.9<br />

Sluice Gate<br />

GIVEN Water flows under the sluice gate shown in Fig. E10.9.<br />

The channel width is b 20 ft, the upstream depth is y 1 6 ft,<br />

and the gate is a 1.0 ft off the channel bottom.<br />

FIND Plot a graph of flowrate, Q, as a function of y 3 .

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