Energy or Energy Head

Energy Head

-Elevation Head

-Velocity Head

-Total Head

Momentum

Open Channel

• The total energy of water moving through a channel is expressed in total head in feet of water.

• This is simply the sum of the the elevation above a datum (elevation head), the pressure head and the velocity head.

• The elevation head is the vertical distance from a datum to a point in the stream.

• The velocity head is expressed by:

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