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As mentioned in the previous chapters, many hydraulic engineering works involve the computation of surface profiles of gradually-varied flow (GVF) that is a steady non-uniform flow in an open channel with gradually changes in its water surface elevation.
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Jan, CD. (2014). Critical-Depth-Based Dimensionless GVF Solutions Using the GHF. In: Gradually-varied Flow Profiles in Open Channels. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35242-3_4
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