Abstract Gabion weirs are environment-friendly structures widely used for irrigation and drainage network purposes. These structures' hydraulic performance is fundamentally different from solid weirs' due to their porosity the existence of a through-flow discharge. This paper investigates reliability suitability number Machine learning models estimation gabion weirs. Generally, three Boosting e...

In dry climate zones, headwater streams are often regulated for water extraction causing intermittency in perennial streams and prolonged drying in intermittent streams. Regulation thereby reduces aquatic habitat downstream of weirs that also form barriers to migration by stream fauna. Environmental flow releases may restore streamflow in rivers, but are rarely applied to headwaters. We sampled...

Weirs are simple control structures usually built across channels for water storage and measurementof flow rates. The main target of the present study is to numerically simulate experimentally thehydraulic performance circular crested normal weirs. For numerical simulation, commercialpackage ANSYS CFX utilized adopting tetrahedrons mesh with a maximum total number 1932301elements, while, experi...

Truncated sharp crested weirs are used to measure flow rate and control upstream water surface in irrigation canals and laboratory flumes. The main advantages of such weirs are ease of construction and capability of measuring a wide range of flows with sufficient accuracy. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic programming (GP) have recently been used for estimation of hydraulic data. In...

Side weirs are flow diversion devices that are widely used in irrigation, drainage and urban sewage systems. The present study focuses on the investigation of the effect of oblique side weirs on the discharge coefficient of a side weir under subcritical flow condition in rectangular channels. In this study 106 laboratory tests were conducted and the results were analyzed to find out the influen...

Abstract In this research, the models of Inflatable weirs with internal pressures 0.5 and 1.4 at three heights 0.15, 0.2 0.25 m were constructed. The deflectors used in two geometric sections, including rectangular triangular shapes, they installed angles 30, 45, 60 degrees downstream weir body. results showed that value Cd changes between 0.28 0.35 while range ratio upstream flow head on crest...