Gates and orifices were significant common structures used in controlling and adjusting the flow in water system channels. Installing of an orifice with sluice gates, increase the flow discharge with minimizing the horizontal jets under gate that was attributed with higher bed flow velocity and larger scour geometry downstream these gates. An experimental study was conducted to examine the flow pattern and the bed configurations downstream sluice gates with an orifice. In this research, a circular orifice employed with sluice gates as a means of energy dissipation downstream the gates, was explored. Forty-five runs were completed under 3 discharges, 3 upstream water heads, and 7 tail gate water depths. Five models for sluice gate with orifice were utilized. A series of regime plots were created to help designing the sluice gate with orifice as heading up and flow distributions structures. The outcomes illustrated that combining of an orifice with sluice gates productively scattered the jump energy and diminished the downstream local scour compared to the conventional sluice gate. Additionally, existed equations used to predict the jump length downstream sluice gate were applicable in case of sluice gate with orifice provided similar flow conditions were achieved. The optimum ratio of orifice and under gate areas was also introduced.

The issues of scouring around a bridge have become prominent in recent research mainly due to recurrent extreme weather events. Thus, designing a bridge with the appropriate protection measures is essential to safeguard it against failure, which may take place due to scouring from high flows resulting from extreme weather events. Bridges may become partially or entirely submerged during extreme weather events such as large floods and are subject to pressure-flow scour, a condition where the flow is directed downward and under the bridge deck, creating an increase in flow velocity and a corresponding increase in bed scour. This study aims to explore the pressure-flow scour depth under a bridge deck without piers in the presence of two vertical wall abutments under clear water experiments. Sixty-six tests were conducted involving the approach flow depth, bed material size, contraction length, contraction width, and bridge opening for both pressure and free surface flow conditions. An empirical equation was deduced to determine the maximum scour depth, which could be applied as a preliminary design for bridges under pressure-flow conditions. The experimental data were used to determine the performance of the earlier models of pressure-flow scour. The results revealed that for pressure-flow conditions, the maximum scour depth increased by a factor between 2.15 and 9.81 times the maximum scour depth under free surface flow conditions. With same flow depth, when the relative bridge length was increased from 5 to 7.5 and 7.5 to 10, the maximum scour depth decreased by up to about 7.4% and 2.3%, respectively. When the relative bridge width was decreased from 5.5 to 5.2 and 5.2 to 4.4, the maximum scour depth increased by up to about 45.6% and 81.2%, respectively.

We introduce a mobile sensing technique to detect a nearby active television, the channel it is tuned to, and whether it is receiving this channel over the air or not. This technique can find applications in tracking TV viewership, second screen services and advertising, as well as improving the efficiency of TV white space spectrum usage. The technique uses a three-stage detection process: It first uses a Gaussian mixture model on audio recordings from mobile phones to detect likely TV sounds in the area. It then correlates the recording with known TV channel audio to identify the channel and improve detection robustness. Finally, it applies a latency analysis to determine whether programming is received over-the-air or through alternate means such as cable or satellite TV. Our system is evaluated using diverse datasets that take into account different realistic scenarios of indoor environments for several users. The results show that the system can achieve an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.9979 and a false negative rate of 0.0132.

The improvement and capacity increasing of hydropower stations have brought attention to the intake structures of water-cooling systems, which suction water from alluvial channels. The accumulation of sediment in the vicinity of these intake structures poses significant operational challenges, such as strong vortices, and irregular flow distribution at pump intakes. One effective approach is the implementation of a sediment deflector system using baffle columns as avoided wall (L-Shape profile) with specific dimensions and arrangement to allow water to go through while preventing sediment ingress into the power station intakes. L-Shape profile means double voided walls, one of them parallel to flow direction while the other wall perpendicular to the flow direction in the upstream of the intake structure. The objective of this study is to optimize the performance of the baffle columns of the deflector system in mitigating sedimentation in front of the intake structures. To achieve this, an undistorted physical model with scale 1:50 is utilized to analyze the impact of a defined angle between the two voided walls of the deflector system. Three trials by changing the angle of the double voided walls (L-Shape profile) from 90° to 120°,135°, and 150°. The results of this study indicate that as the inclination angle of the deflector system increased to 150°, it resulted in uniform flow efficiency in the direction of the flow, less accumulative sedimentation ingress the intake.

Scour is a characteristic marvel caused because of the erosive activity of flowing stream on alluvial beds which expels the silt around or close structures situated in streaming water. In this paper, an experimental study was directed to foresee the impact of oriented vanes introduced on level stilling basin downstream a sluice gate on bed material planning to limit the local geometry of scour and silting. The considered shape in this exploration is easy to be utilized as an additional component to be implemented on the stilling basin of any current water structures. Two hundred and sixty runs were executed using 10 models of stilling basins considering different heights and angles of vanes under various flow conditions including the discharges and tail gate water depths. An instance of level floor without vanes was incorporated into the test program to foresee the impact of vanes establishment. The experimental outcomes were accounted for 2 distinctive bed materials. Results were analyzed and graphically introduced. Simple formulas were given to estimate the geometry of the local scour and silting.