Experimental Study of the Application of Sill, Dike and Skimming Wall in Controlling Bed Sediment Entering 75 Lateral Intake in a U Channel Bend

The mechanism of flow and sediment transport in channel bend is much more complex when the outer bank of the bend is employed for lateral diversion. Due to the secondary current, sediment moves away from outer bank and therefore outer bank of the bend is one of the best locations for lateral diversion. In this experimental investigation, three structures including Sill, Dike and skimming wall were used to control the amount of bed sediment at lateral intake with three ratio of diverted flow discharge of 0.17, 0.21 and 0.26. Results showed that to have a fix percentage of flow diversion in all experiments, these structures have been effective on water level compared to the control conditions and they had an effect on input Froude number. The combination of skimming wall of 14 ̊, dike and sill had the most controlled bed sediment in different percentages and 92 percent of sediment movement to the lateral intake decreased compared to the control experiment. In the sill experiment, by increasing the percentage of flow diversion, the effect of this structure reduced, the least percentage of reduction of sediment diversion at discharge ratio of 26 percent has been 65 percent. Changes in the strength of secondary flow were investigated quantitatively at the intake mouth and it was revealed that the process of changes in sill and control experiments is different from other experiments. Investigating shear stress of the bed channel, it was shown that, firstly, the amount of shear stress in outer bend is more than inner bend and secondly, by increasing the percentage of flow diversion, shear stress increases along the intake. Using skimming wall of 14̊, the local pattern of shear stress in front of the intake changes such that the amount of shear stress near the intake decreases, the maximum shear stress is moved towards the center of the channel and back of the structure, which leads to decreased amount of erosion and diversion of sediment to the intake