“…Each plane section was 8 m long, with slopes of 0.02, 0.015 and 0.01 in the downstream direction. In the most difficult scenario to simulate, each section received constant lateral inflows of 389, 230 and 288 cm h − 1 respectively, for a duration of 10 s. Figure 2 shows the model-predicted outflow hydrograph compared with the experimental results produced with Dx = 0.25 m and Dt = 0.05 s. In this experiment, a shock wave is produced, which arrives at the downstream end of the cascade at approximately 25 s; the developed model reproduces these results well considering the potential experimental errors, such as non-uniform lateral inflow [25], and better than other published analytical and numerical methods [2,26,27]. Here, Manning's equation was used to compute friction slope, with a friction coefficient of 0.009.…”