اندازه گیری

A side sluice gate is an underflow and metering diversion device set into the side of a channel with the purpose of allowing part of the liquid to spill through the side. Review of the literature shows that in spite of the importance of the side sluice gate, little attention has been given to studying the behaviour of flow through this device. The available published works on side sluice gates found are those of Panda (1981), Swamee et al. (1993) and Ghodsian (2003). They related the discharge coefficient of the side sluice gate to depth of flow and gate opening. For this purpose, the side sluice gates, since flow control devices, are widely used in the irrigation channels to divert flow from a main channel to a secondary channel. The main purpose of present study was to determine the water surface profile, gate opening, and flow discharge through the sharp-crested rectangular side sluice gates in a subcritical flow regime in free and submerged flow conditions. This study also provides some approaches to differentiate the free or submerged flow conditions. For this purpose, two approaches of solving spatially varied flow equation in a sub-critical flow regime and the direct solution of the discharge equation of the side sluice gates in determining the flow characteristics of the side sluice gates was experimentally investigated. 

Sluice gates are designed and used in Ogee spillways with high height (regulator dams) or low height (as sill) for better controlling the flow. In latter case, according to different combinations of weir geometry, gate opening, upstream and downstream flow depths, four different flow conditions are recognizable: (a) free uncontrolled flow, (b) submerged uncontrolled flow, (c) free controlled flow, and (d) submerged controlled flow. Determination of change threshold of these flow condition is useful for choosing the proposed discharge equations in any situation. In current research, using the experimental data gathered from two Ogee spillways with different height in this program and using the data gathered from typical spillway structures in central and southern Florida water-control project, different equations for determining the change threshold and flow discharge in four different flow conditions are developed. In free uncontrolled flow condition, the proposed discharge equation has an average relative error of 1.95% while in free and submerged controlled flow condition, the proposed discharge equations have the average relative errors of 2% and 5% respectively. Results showed that the change threshold of uncontrolled flow into controlled flow occurs when upstream flow depth increases about 1.46 times the gate opening. Furthermore, the relative submergence threshold and flow discharge increase by increasing the downstream flow depth and decreasing the upstream flow depth.

Most of the previous studies related to radial gates are focused on the estimation of discharge from the gates as a flow measurement structure. However, determination of the gate opening for passing a certain value of the discharge is rarely considered in previous studies as a regulator structure. The present work presents some theoretical equations for explicit estimation of the outflow from the gate (first problem), and gate opening (second problem) for free and submerged flow conditions by combination of Energy and Momentum principles. For any problems, it was developed some criteria to identify flow conditions These equations were calibrated and validated by means of 2657 experimental records retrieved from research conducted on three types of radial gates. The paper would present an analytical approach to illustrate the reliability of proposed equations for estimation of discharge and the opening of the gate by taking benefits from the mean absolute relative errors which observed to be 1.94% and 2.67, respectively. It was noted that the used criteria conform with 99.6% and 98.8% of all observations at first and second problems, respectively. The results show that the tailwater depth under distinguishing limiting decreases by increasing in the gate lip angle and the ratio of turnnion pin height to the gate arm radius. Also, the hard rubber bar gate tends to operate under free flow condition in a wider range in comparison with two other gates.

Discharge measurement by sluice gates is one of the classical issues in hydraulic engineering. Based on the energy conservation relation, this study presents a novel method for estimating the discharge coefficient of sluice gates under free and submerged flow conditions. This method gives the discharge coefficient of sluice gates only as a function of upstream depth and bottom pressure measured by manometers located under the gate lip and is independent of flow conditions (free and submerged), gate opening and tailwater depth. For evaluating the applicability of the proposed equation in this research for estimating the flow discharge, the experimental results (418 runs) of two sluice gates with 25 and 40 cm widths are used in the conditions of presence and absence of end baffle blocks for both free and submerged flows. Independency of discharge coefficient from the tailwater depth has important advantages such as: continuous estimation of discharge coefficient under free and submerged flow conditions using a unified equation and higher accuracy at the lower submergence. Also being independent of tailwater depth makes easy flow estimation even at the presence of baffle blocks on the stilling basins. The results show that, applying the energy loss coefficient in the proposed equation decreases the mean absolute relative errors to 0.4% and 2.6% for free and submerged flow conditions respectively. Also the proposed equation has a relative error less than 5% under submerged flow conditions. The proposed method is very sensitive to bottom pressure head especially under higher submergence levels.

In the next decades، rapid population growth، increasing demand of agricultural yield and the standard living especially in the developing countries will significantly reduce water availability for agriculture. Therefore، desirable and optimal use of water resources and increasing agricultural productivity are vital. So، in this research، newly developed sensor has been designed and constructed for determining and monitoring real-time temperature، salinity and water content، with three years efforts from 1390. Environmental data measurement system using the brand REC-P55 in the field experiments showed that this system can record moisture content with accuracy less than 0. 05% and validity less than 0. 5% in different soil textures and depths. Moreover، the correlation coefficient for actual recorded data and REC-P55 one is 99%. Also، according to the capabilities of REC-P55، it was found that soil moisture profiles can be easily created and the results are of a high precision in comparison with the electrical resistance sensor and PR2.