DETERMINATION OF THE FREE FLOW DEPTH UNDER UNEVEN CURRENT MODE IN PRISMATIC CHANNELS
The aim of the work is to analyze the existing method of calculating the spillway from the depth of the free flow under uneven mode in prismatic channels with a slowly changing movement and to develop a method of calculations that allows applying it to any flows in a prismatic channel without using any special tables. The existing methods for calculating flow parameters are based on the use of the Chesy formula to determine the flow consumption with a slowly changing water movement. At the same time, there is a V.I. Charnomsky’s method of direct calculation of the flow parameters from the energy equation without limiting the value of the channel slope. The disadvantage of this method is a possibility to solve the energy equation by the method of sequential approximation since the flow energy equation includes two variables, the flow depth and the distance between the sections. To eliminate this difficulty, it is proposed to determine the distance between the depths that make up the geometric progression on the considered part of the channel which allows calculating parameters of the free flow surface for any channel slopes and hydraulic flow modes without to special tables.