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Shear Stress In Smooth Rectangular Open-Channel Flows, Junke Guo, Pierre Y. Julien
Shear Stress In Smooth Rectangular Open-Channel Flows, Junke Guo, Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications
The average bed and sidewall shear stresses in smooth rectangular open-channel flows are determined after solving the continuity and momentum equations. The analysis shows that the shear stresses are function of three components: (1) gravitational; (2) secondary flows; and (3) interfacial shear stress. An analytical solution in terms of series expansion is obtained for the case of constant eddy viscosity without secondary currents. In comparison with laboratory measurements, it slightly overestimates the average bed shear stress measurements but underestimates the average sidewall shear stress by 17% when the width–depth ratio becomes large. A second approximation is formulated after introducing two …