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Stepped spillways and energy dissipation

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 5, pp. 15–21, May, 1999.

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Shvainshtein, A.M. Stepped spillways and energy dissipation. Hydrotechnical Construction 33, 275–282 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764523

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