WSEL values on profile & sinuosity definition

Dear Chris

Two more questions:

1. How may I see the water surface elevation in the calculated profile?
2. If I use the flow path sinuosity coefficient, exists a scale to see what it means, if I use for example the input value 1.4?

Sincerely,

Michael Bätscher
Dipl. Bau-Ing. FH
HSR Hochschule Rapperswil
Abt. Bauingenieurwesen
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CH-8640 Rapperswil

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Dear Michael Bätscher :

Note that DAMBRK writes the water surface profile values to the output file. You can review the output file to determine what the peak water surface elevation was at individual cross sections. However, these values are not able to plotted on the profile plots. But, you could import the graphic output file into Microsoft Excel (the *.G* files are ASCII text files) and have Excel plot the values.

The sinuosity coefficient is defined as the channel flow path length divided by the flood-plain flow path length. This entry allows the program to consider river meander in its computations, particularly when determining flood wave travel time when the flood bank is overtopped. If this entry is left blank, then the program will default to a value of 1.0. Note that this entry only needs to be specified if you are modeling a flood-plain.

Sincerely,

Chris E. Maeder, M.S., P.E.
Senior Technical Engineer
chris.maeder@bossintl.com