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Model-Prototype Conformity: Boulder Dam Outlet Works

Wing, S. P.

The principal hydraulic model tests of the dam outlet works (34), which included flow through the intake tower, penstock turbine, and outlet-valve manifolds, were made on a 5⅝-in. (1 : 64 scale), extremely smooth, sheetmetal model which had a friction coefficient of f = 0.021 at a Reynolds number R of 80,000 and used a maximum of 2 cu ft per sec of water. Performance and efficiency tests of the 30-ft diameter prototype, utilizing a maximum discharge of 20,000 cu ft per sec with measured velocities up to 90 ft per sec and at a Reynolds number of from 40 to 70 × 10⁶, made it possible to obtain data from which various hydraulic features of the model and prototype could be compared.

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Model-Prototype Conformity: Boulder Dam Outlet Works

Wing, S. P.

The principal hydraulic model tests of the dam outlet works (34), which included flow through the intake tower, penstock turbine, and outlet-valve manifolds, were made on a 5⅝-in. (1 : 64 scale), extremely smooth, sheetmetal model which had a friction coefficient of f = 0.021 at a Reynolds number R of 80,000 and used a maximum of 2 cu ft per sec of water. Performance and efficiency tests of the 30-ft diameter prototype, utilizing a maximum discharge of 20,000 cu ft per sec with measured velocities up to 90 ft per sec and at a Reynolds number of from 40 to 70 × 10⁶, made it possible to obtain data from which various hydraulic features of the model and prototype could be compared.

Model-Prototype Conformity: Boulder Dam Outlet Works

Wing, S. P.

The principal hydraulic model tests of the dam outlet works (34), which included flow through the intake tower, penstock turbine, and outlet-valve manifolds, were made on a 5⅝-in. (1 : 64 scale), extremely smooth, sheetmetal model which had a friction coefficient of f = 0.021 at a Reynolds number R of 80,000 and used a maximum of 2 cu ft per sec of water. Performance and efficiency tests of the 30-ft diameter prototype, utilizing a maximum discharge of 20,000 cu ft per sec with measured velocities up to 90 ft per sec and at a Reynolds number of from 40 to 70 × 10⁶, made it possible to obtain data from which various hydraulic features of the model and prototype could be compared.

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Title:

Model-Prototype Conformity: Boulder Dam Outlet Works

Contributors:

Wing, S. P. (author)

Published in:

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 109 ; 59-67

Publication date:

2021-01-01

Size:

91944-01-01 pages

ISSN:

0066-0604 , 2690-4071

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1061/TACEAT.0005777

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

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Electronic Resource

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Unknown

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