SSSaleh Jaafer Suleiman Shareef

Saleh Jaafer Suleiman Shareef

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  • Open Access

    Numerical simulation of flow on circular crested stepped spillway

    by Abbas Parsaie, Saleh Jaafer Suleiman Shareef, Amir Hamzeh Haghiabi, Raad Hoobi Irzooki, Rasul M. Khalaf

    The spillways are one of the most important hydraulic structures used in river engineering, dam construction, irrigation, and drainage engineering projects. Recently, a new type of such spillways with a circular crest has been proposed. In this paper, the hydraulic properties of the circular crested stepped spillway (CCSS) including flow pattern, distribution of velocity on the crest and pressure, turbulence intensity, discharge coefficient ( $${C}_{d}$$ C d ) and energy dissipation ratio (EDR) were investigated numerically. To model the free surface of flow the volume of fluid technique, and for modeling the turbulence of flow, k − ε (RNG) was utilized. Results declared that there is a good agreement between the laboratory observations and numerical simulation. The $${C}_{d}$$ C d of the CCSS changes between 0.9 and 1.4 considering the range of relative upstream head ( $${h}_{up}/R$$ h up / R ) between 0.33 m and 2.67. The observation of the flow streamlines showed that they are tangential to the curvature of the crest and there is no separation of the flow from the crest. Examination of the pressure distribution on the CCSS model shows that just downstream part of the crest, the pressure is partially negative. Of course, the same partial negative pressure is observed on the edge of the steps. The steps increase the maximum intensity turbulence by 50%. The CCSS can dissipate the energy of flow between 90 and 30%, and in the skimming flow regime, the portion of each step in the energy dissipation regardless of their position is almost identical.


  • Open Access

    Predicting the discharge coefficient of oblique cylindrical weir using neural network techniques

    by Adnan A. Ismael, Saleh J. Suleiman, Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima, Nadhir Al-Ansari

    Cylindrical weir shapes offer a steady-state overflow pattern, where the type of weirs can offer a simple design and provide the ease-to-pass floating debris. This study considers a coefficient of discharge (Cd) prediction for oblique cylindrical weir using three diameters, the first is of D1 = 0.11 m, the second is of D2 = 0.09 m, and the third is of D3 = 0.06.5 m, and three inclination angles with respect to channel axis, the first is of θ1 = 90 ͦ, the second is of θ2 = 45 ͦ, and the third is of θ3 = 30 ͦ. The Cd values for total of 56 experiments are estimated by using the radial basis function network (RBFN), in addition of comparing that with the back-propagation neural network (BPNN) and cascade-forward neural network (CFNN). Root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), and correlation coefficient (CC) statics are used as metrics measurements. The RBFN attained superior performance comparing to the other neural networks of BPNN and CFNN. It is found that, for the training stage, the RBFN network benchmarked very small RMSE and MSE values of 1.35E-12 and 1.83E-24, respectively and for the testing stage, it also could benchmark very small RMSE and MSE values of 0.0082 and 6.80E-05, respectively.


  • Open Access

    Predicting the scour depth downstream single step broad crested weirs

    by Saleh J. Suleiman, Adnan A. Ismael

    The main purpose of broad crested weir used in open channels is to raise and control upstream (U/S) water level. The most important problems for downstream of hydraulic structures are the local scour formed at the downstream of hydraulic structures. Scour control process considered as the main objective to ensure safety and economical design of hydraulic structures to prevent any serious failure in the future. In this study, four models of Single-Step-Broad-Crested weirs with different angles were tested under different flow intensity for duration of 6 hours. Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) was used to investigate the velocity field. The results showed that, the model C reduces local scour hole volume was about 87.6%, 55.58% and 44.8% and the maximum depth of scour reduced 73.43%, 32.56% and 24.22% as compared with model D at each discharge.