System identification of channel roughness for Mid-Route Project of South-to-North Water Diversion

This paper presents a new method for the system identification of the channel roughness for the water diversion projects. According to the principle of hydraulics,the function relationship among channel roughness n, roughness height k s and hydraulic radius R is established,and then a linear model is deduced by means of the mathematical transformation to make use of the least square method for identification. Finally,based on the prototype observation data from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and considering the influence of channel lengths,cross-section shapes and bottom slopes,etc,a universal formula is obtained for calculation of channel roughness by the system identification.