Zhejiang University

Haolei Zheng

Zhilin Sun

Yizhi Sun

Chunhong Hu

Lixiao Sun

Yimeng Gao

The present disclosure provides a reservoir desilting device having a funnel with a bivariate normal surface, which belongs to the technical field of water conservancy projects. The device includes a sediment inlet funnel and a sediment transport pipeline, where the sediment inlet funnel is located in a sediment accumulation area in a reservoir, the sediment transport pipeline is laid on a river bed of the reservoir, a bottom of the sediment inlet funnel is connected to one end of the sediment transport pipeline, and the other end of the sediment transport pipeline penetrates out of a bottom of a dam; and the sediment transport funnel has a shape of a bivariate normal surface, the sediment transport pipeline has a shape of an inverse hyperbolic geodesic curve, and the sediment transport pipeline is provided with a valve.

Reservoir desilting device having funnel with bivariate normal surface

A funnel based on bivariate normal distribution is provided, and belongs to the field of daily tools. The funnel is formed by connecting a funnel body in a shape of a bivariate normal distribution with an outlet tube. The funnel body can be formed by rotating a normal distribution curve around the axis of symmetry z with a positive direction pointing to a deep part of the funnel, towards which the fluid flows. An outlet tube is a conical structure with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part. The surface of the funnel body has arbitrary order smoothness at everywhere. The design is simple and the fluid experiences little resistance when it flows through the inner surface. Thus, the funnel can effectively prevented blockage during the transport of fluid, powder and granules and the transport efficiency is remarkably improved.

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Hangzhou, China

Haolei Zheng