Sediment and Cavitation Erosion Studies through Dam Tunnels

Table 6

Boundary conditions, initialization condition, and sediment flow rates at different heads.

	Type	Head	Tunnel 2	Tunnel 3
Boundary conditions	Pressure (kPa)	High	1323.53	1290.76
		Medium	950.91	918.15
		Low	578.30	545.53
Initial conditions	Velocity (m/sec)	High	11.55	2.05
		Medium	10.33	1.70
		Low	7.57	1.31
Sediment flow rates at different heads (kg/sec)	5 × 10^−5, 5 × 10^−4, 5 × 10^−3, 5 × 10^−2, 5 × 10^−1, 5, and 50