Flow resistance and its prediction methods in compound channels

摘要

A series of experiments was carried out in a large symmetric compound channel composed of a rough main channel and rough floodplains to investigate the resistance characteristics of inbank and overbank flows.The effective Manning,Darcy-Weisbach,Chezy coefficients and the relative Nikuradse roughness height were analyzed.Many different representative methods for predicting the composite roughness were systemat-ically summarized.Besides the measured data,a vast number of laboratory data and field data for compoundchannels were collected and used to check the valid-ity of these methods for different subsection divisionsincluding the vertical,horizontal,diagonal and bisec-tional divisions.The computation showed that thesemethods resulted in big errors in assessing the compos-ite roughness in compound channels,and the reasonswere analyzed in detail.The error magnitude is relatedto the subsection divisions.