Discharge Formulas of Crump-De Gruyter Gate-Weir for Computer Simulation

Abstract

One of the problems of interest to professionals in the field of irrigation and drainage is the computer simulation of discharge or level control structures. Particularly troublesome are structures that display a marked change of behavior when the downstream water level exceeds a certain limit. The Crump-de Gruyter gate displays several such changes of behavior. Not only does it exhibit a transition from free to drowned flow when the downstream water level rises, it can also go from weir to gate flow. A series of experiments in a laboratory flume provided the basic data to test a simple mathematical model of this structure. The model assumes the structure is located between two reaches with sub-critical flow in the upstream and downstream reach.