Abstract:In rivers the flow is, as a rule, unsteady, with different degrees of variability. Floods can apparently be considered as slowly varying flows. Flows in the form of breakthrough waves, which can arise upon failure of dams and as a result of natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, collapse of large masses of earth into a reservoir, bursting of natural dams, heavy storms, etc. are very unsteady. Just in the s,~mer of 1976 three cases of the formation of breakthrough waves were reported: upon failure of the Teton… Show more
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