Larocque, Lindsey Ann, Jasim Imran, and M. H. Chaudhry. “Experimental and Numerical Investigations of 2-D Dam-Break Flow”. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 139, no. 6 (2013): 569-79.
Abstract
This paper presents measurements of velocity profiles obtained from idealized dam-break experiments and results from numerical simulations of these experiments. Dam-break flows were generated in the laboratory by suddenly lifting a gate inside a flume for three different upstream heads with a dry-bed downstream condition. Ultrasonic Doppler velocity profilers were used for recording transient velocity profiles at eight different locations upstream and downstream of the removed gate.