Journal
WATER
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w11071414
Keywords
culvert; culvert design; culvert hydraulics; culvert retrofitting; discharge capacity; inlet optimization; ANSYS Fluent
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- Sunshine Coast Council
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This paper presents the findings of a study into how different inlet designs for stormwater culverts increase the discharge rate. The objective of the study was to develop improved inlet designs that could be retro-fitted to existing stormwater culvert structures in order to increase discharge capacity and allow for changing rainfall patterns and severe weather events that are expected as a consequence of climate change. Three different chamfer angles and a rounded corner were simulated with the software ANSYS Fluent, each of the shapes tested in five different sizes. Rounded and 45 degrees chamfers at the inlet edge performed best, significantly increasing the flow rate, though the size of the configurations was a critical factor. Inlet angles of 30 degrees and 60 degrees caused greater turbulence in the simulations than did 45 degrees and the rounded corner. The best performing shape of the inlet, the rounded corner, was tested in an experimental flume. The flume flow experiment showed that the optimal inlet configuration, a rounded inlet (radius = 1/5 culvert width) improved the flow rate by up to 20% under submerged inlet control conditions.
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