CE 704 · Chapter 4
Hydropower Engineering past question
4.4.2 Methods of dissipating energy below a dam, stilling basin, ski-jump and flip buckets, their suitability, hydraulics of stilling basin, the role of tail-water in energy dissipation
Design an appropriate USBR-type stilling basin using the following data: Spillway discharge = 80 m³/s, Width of spillway = 8 m, Spillway crest level = 96 m, Riverbed level = 65 m, River bed slope = 1:500 and Manning's n = 0.016. [7]