Stilling basins
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128138
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85128138#concept
Variants
- Still boxes (Stilling basins)
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Sources
- found: Merriam-Webster dictionary online, viewed Apr. 18, 2017(Stilling basin: a depression in a channel or reservoir deep enough to reduce the velocity or turbulence of the flow --called also still box)
- found: Water power magazine, viewed online Apr. 18, 2017Designing stilling basins, June 19, 2007 (As water flows over the spillway or through a tunnel or pipe outlet into the downstream channel, it has a very high kinetic energy. The excess energy has to be dissipated so that it does not endanger the stability of bed and banks of the downstream channel. This dissipation of energy is achieved by an energy dissipator known as the stilling basin)
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Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2017-04-18: revised
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