Weir Crest

Figure 110: Weir geometry

The weir crest is the upstream element of a pair of boundary elements simulating a weir. The corresponding downstream element is the weir slope. Both are illustrated in Figure 110. The weir can occur in different forms such as broad-crested weirs (left picture in the Figure) and sharp-crested weirs (right picture in the Figure). The volumetric flow $Q$ can be characterized by a law of the form

$$Q=C b (h-p)^{3/2},$$ (42)

where C is a constant. For instance, in the formula by Poleni $C=2 C_d \sqrt{2 g}/3$, where $C_d$ is coefficient smaller than 1 to be measured experimentally [11]. The following constants have to be specified on the line beneath the *FLUID SECTION,TYPE=CHANNEL WEIR CREST card:

• the width $b$
• the height $p$
• the constant $C$
• not used
• the number of the downstream weir slope element
• the number of the upstream reference element, if any

The cross section of the weir is supposed to be rectangular. This is important, since a different form leads to a different exponent in Equation 42. Notice that a weir can have upstream channel elements attached to it. In that case it is mandatory to specify an upstream reference element.

Example files: channel7.