Flow Patterns Modeling over Spillway: Review Study

Abstract

A spillway dam, constructed concurrently with concrete or masonry, is a vital infrastructure designed to provide the controlled release of surplus water that surpasses the dam's storage capacity. Since the Ogee spillway is among the best and most well-known worldwide, it deserves study. Weir flow, inertia, and gravity are crucial in many open-channel applications. Consequently, hydraulic performance data between model and prototype structures are commonly scaled using Froude similitude. As the upstream head decreases in a weir flow, the surface tension and viscosity forces become more important, perhaps to the point where Froude scaling fails to achieve complete model-prototype similarity. Size-scale effects are responsible for various alterations to the head-discharge connection, the nappe trajectory, and air entrainment. Hydraulic parameters were explored in this work utilizing Flow3D software to find weir geometry optimization using the CFD method. In addition, this study attempted to evaluate flow on various parts of crested weirs in three different models.