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In a stepped spillway, the spillway face is provided with a series of steps from near the crest to the toe. The energy dissipation caused by the steps reduces the size of the energy dissipator, generally provided at the toe of the spillway. The hydraulics of stepped spillways is investigated by carrying out laboratory experiments, building models to explain the data, and testing the robustness of the models developed here using a neuro-fuzzy approach. The experiments consist of twenty different stepped spillways tested in a horizontal laboratory flume, a wide range of discharge values, three weir slopes of 15°, 25°, and 45° and different step numbers from 3 to 50 on the ogee surface. The main objective of this paper was to investigate the applicability and accuracy of the neuro-fuzzy approach in estimating the proper values of energy dissipation of skimming flow regime over stepped spillways because of the imprecise, insufficient, ambiguous and uncertain data available. A neuro-fuzzy approach was developed to relate the input and output (energy dissipation) variables. Multiple regression equations based on dimensional analysis theory were developed for computing energy dissipation over stepped spillways. The determination coefficients for the suggested neuro-fuzzy model in training and testing process are 0.974 and 0.966, respectively. It was found that the neuro-fuzzy approach formulation of the problem of solving for the energy dissipation over stepped spillways is more successful than that by regression equations.
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Abbreviations
- b :
-
Spillway width
- E 1 :
-
Energy downstream of spillway before hydraulic jump
- E 0 :
-
Total energy upstream of spillway
- ΔE :
-
The difference between energy upstream and downstream of the spillway (ΔE = E 0−E 1)
- F r :
-
Supercritical Froude number = \({{V_1}/{\sqrt{gy_1}}}\)
- g :
-
Acceleration due to gravity
- h :
-
Step height
- H w :
-
Total spillway height from flume bed
- l :
-
Step length
- q :
-
Discharge per unit width
- Q :
-
Discharge
- S :
-
Weir/spillway slope (V: H)
- V a :
-
Approach velocity = (q/y)
- V 1 :
-
Velocity at the toe of the spillway
- y 0 :
-
Depth of flow about 0.60 m upstream of the spillway above the spillway crest
- y 1 :
-
Depth before hydraulic jump at the spillway toe
- y 2 :
-
Depth after hydraulic jump
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Salmasi, F., Özger, M. Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Estimating Energy Dissipation in Skimming Flow over Stepped Spillways. Arab J Sci Eng 39, 6099–6108 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-014-1240-2
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