Trapezoidal Notch
Discharge over a Trapezoidal Notch
Key Facts
Gyroscopic Couple: The rate of change of angular momentum () = (In the limit).- = Moment of Inertia.
- = Angular velocity
- = Angular velocity of precession.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher.
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.
Overview
A trapezoidal notch is a combination of a rectangular notch and two triangular notches as shown in figure. It is, thus obvious that the discharge over such a notch will be the sum of the discharge over the rectangular and triangular notches.MISSING IMAGE!
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- = Height of the liquid above the sill of the notch
- = Coefficient of discharge for the rectangular portion
- = Coefficient of discharge for the triangular portion
- = Breadth of the rectangular portion of the notch
- = Angle, which the sides make with the vertical
Example:
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Example - Discharge over the trapezoidal notch
Problem
A trapezoidal notch notch of 1.2m wide at the top and 450mm at the bottom is 300mm high. Find the discharge through the notch, if the head of water is 225mm. Take coefficient of discharge as 0.6.
Workings
Given,
- Width of the notch = 1.2m
- b = 450mm = 0.45m
- Height of the notch = 300mm = 0.3m
- H = 225mm = 0.225m
- Cd = 0.6
Solution
Discharge through the notch = 128 liters/s