Sentence examples for downstream ends from inspiring English sources

Blocked at their downstream ends with earthfill or concrete constructions, they are also known as debris dams.

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Concrete sills or roughness elements commonly are placed at the downstream ends of aprons to further slow the flow that passes over the main dam.

On flow margins or at the downstream ends of depositional zones where velocities are much slower, lahars can encase buildings, roads, towers, and farm land in mud-rock slurries that can dry out to near concrete-like hardness.

While there are numerous factors contributing to the increased yields that have been obtained, the most sustained of these is the introduction of disposable technologies on both the upstream and the downstream ends of the process.

where Q is the volume of fluid measured per unit time, k w is the water permeability, A is the cross-sectional area of the sample, η is the dynamic viscosity of water, L is the sample length, and Pup and Pdown are pore fluid pressures at the upstream (the bottom of the specimen) and downstream ends (top) of the specimen, respectively.

The Salmon River, its largest tributary, joins the Snake near the downstream end of the canyon section.

Those making that argument against Georgia include many people in Florida, the only state in the region to have adopted a water plan and home to the downstream end of the basin that includes Lake Lanier.

The first employs suction lines, which create a suction or vacuum in the pipe by placing the compressor or blower near the downstream end of the pipe.

The discharge measured at the downstream end of a channel reach is supplied by channel inflow at the upstream end of the reach and by the lateral inflows that enter the channel from the hillslope along the reach.

In the worst case, the US authorities could force the firm to divest its drilling rights in the Gulf and elsewhere, leaving the downstream end – refining oil to make and market petrol, chemicals and plastics – badly exposed, if not unviable.