To elucidate the mechanism of river bed's self-adjustment under given boundary and amount of water and sediment, the principle and formula of minimum rate of available energy dissipation were put forward in the river regulation projects according to the theory of entropy and energy dissipation about dynamic equilibrium stability of irreversible process in fluvial river. The formula is applied to the river regulation of Han River in the middle of China for predicting its regulated parameters. The comparisons between the computed and measured navigable depths and width show that the formula is effective. The result of the present work implied that the theory used in the regulation projects can provide engineers the needed theoretical basis for river morphology and river engineering studies.


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    Title :

    Application of the Theory of Minimum Rate of Energy Dissipation to River Regulation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Ninth Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference ; 2012 ; Chongqing, China


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-06-28




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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