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Record W4407821112 · doi:10.1016/j.rineng.2025.104446

A numerical study on the effect of gate configuration on the hydraulic parameters of dam spillways

2025· article· en· W4407821112 on OpenAlex
Elaheh Motahari Moghadam, Ali Saeidi, Alain Rouleau, Javier Patarroyo

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Bibliographic record

VenueResults in Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydraulic flow and structures
Canadian institutionsHydro-QuébecUniversité du Québec à Chicoutimi
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaHydro-Québec
KeywordsEngineeringMechanicsGeotechnical engineeringEnvironmental sciencePhysics

Abstract

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• Novel insights on flow depth and velocity variations in single vs. double-gate spillways. • Double-gate configuration leads to more uniform water height across the channel width. • Single-gate setup shows higher flow depth fluctuations, especially in mid-channel. Understanding the importance of hydraulic parameters affecting erosion is crucial for designing hydraulic structures, particularly in open channel spillways. While previous research has studied the impact of hydraulic parameters on the erosion of spillways, limited attention has been given to the specific influence of flow parameters in different gate configurations. To address this issue, our study provides a valuable understanding of the effects of flow depth, average, and maximum velocity variations in both single and double-gate scenarios using numerical modeling. The study utilized the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to conduct numerical simulations of the Romaine IV reduced scale spillway. Results show that the gate configuration has a great impact on flow depth and velocity variations. The division of a flow in the double-gate scenario, significantly influences the flow distribution, representing a more uniform water height across the channel width. However, flow depth fluctuations are higher in the single-gate setup, especially in the middle-width section. Furthermore, velocity variations show an important difference in the middle of the channel at the upstream, where the central pier functioning as a gate separator causes a local reduction in velocity, dropping to zero; after this point, the velocity values converge again demonstrating nearly similar values for the two scenarios.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.269
Threshold uncertainty score0.392

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it