Experimental study of river morphology downstream of the inclined and vertical grade control structures

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Faculty of Civil Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran.

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Grade control structure (GCS) can be used to reduce erosion in river beds. They decrease the river bed scour by changing the flow regime and reducing its velocity. It is required to maintain the stability of these structures against the scour hole that generates downstream of them, so investigating the scour hole characteristics downstream of the GCS is inevitable. In the present research, the equilibrium scour holes downstream of GCS were investigated under three discharges (q=0.00467, 0.00583, 0.00700 m3/s.m) and two different sedimentation conditions (d50=0.082, 1.6 mm). The results show that in the constant GCS geometry and finer sediment, the maximum scour depth (ds) and maximum scour hole length (ls) increase. In the same sedimentary conditions and different geometry, when the slope of the GCS downstream face varied from 90° to 60°, ds increases, but ls decreases. Also, the hydraulic jump forms on the scour hole at high flow intensity, which has an essential influence on the geometry of the equilibrium scour hole. Comparison of ds/Hc between the present study and Ben Meftah and Mossa (2020) has R2=0.891 and RE=10.66%, which reveals acceptable compatibility between the present study results and previous ones.

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