Improved Estimates of Kinematic Wave Parameters for Circular Channels

• Published in: Civil engineering infrastructures journal Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 95 - 104
• Main Authors: Alireza Vatankhah, Said M Easa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tehran Press 01.06.2013
• Subjects: circular channels; drainage design; flow depth-independent parameters; kinematic wave modeling; power law equation; travel time

The momentum equation in the kinematic wave model is a power-law equation with two parameters. These parameters, which relate the discharge to the flow area, are commonly derived using Manning’s equation. In general, the values of these parameters depend on the flow depth except for some special cro...