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On the discharge characteristic at the dam site after dam break

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A review of the information available in the literature is given, and new experimental data on the depth and discharge at the dam site after a total and a partial dam break are presented. It is shown that in the case of a partial dam break with the formation of a rectangular breach, the specific discharge per unit width of the breach is higher than the specific discharge in the case of a total dam break with the same excess initial energy in the headwater.

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  1. Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 77–87, September–October, 2006.

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Bukreev, V.I. On the discharge characteristic at the dam site after dam break. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 47, 679–687 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10808-006-0104-2

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