abstract rockfill dams are a type of hydraulic control structures used to protect river bed in cases where a considerable reservoir volume is available behind these structures; it could mitigate the floods and provide a gradual depletion of incoming volume of water so that the discharge passing downstream is decreased. one of the main issues on utilizing rockfill dams is to keep its permeabilit...

sures experienced by a pipeline can be either beneficial or detrimental from an operational performance perspective, depending on the amount, the two phase regime of the mixture (whether homogeneous or slug) and the nature and cause of the transient. It is generally held that when free (undissolved) air, or gas, is present in a hydraulic system, it can greatly reduce the surge pressure levels b...

ABSTRACT-Determining hydraulic conductivity of soil is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. In this study, Algorithm Genetic and geostatistical analysis and Neural Networks method are used to estimate soil saturated hydraulic conductivity using the properties of particle size distribution. The data were gathered from 134soil profiles from soil and lander form studies of the Ardabil Agricul...

We propose a theory of a steady circular hydraulic jump based on the shallowwater model obtained from the depth-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. The flow structure both upstream and downstream of the jump is determined by considering the flow over a plate of finite radius. The radius of the jump is found using the farfield conditions together with the jump conditions that include the effects o...

Utilization of hydraulic-fracturing technology is dramatically increasing in exploitation of natural gas extraction. However the prediction of the configuration of propagated hydraulic fracture is extremely challenging. This paper presents a numerical method of obtaining the configuration of the propagated hydraulic fracture into discrete natural fracture network system. The method is developed...

Hydraulic control systems are mainly applied to driving problems which require both a high power output and advantageous dynamic properties. A great number of components have to work together in order to perform the complex functionalities requested. Therefore, a huge effort has been spent in developing software solutions to support the engineer with the demanding and time-consuming task of hyd...

This paper is concerned with real-time optimal-tuning PID control design for industrial hydraulic systems. Several optimal-tuning controller design techniques are used for a hydraulic position control system. After analysis on the system, a nonlinear dynamical model is derived. A nonlinear PID control scheme with inverse of dead zone is introduced to overcome the dead zone in this hydraulic sys...