 Hydraulic control with prescribed seepage

For loss of fluid carrying its local axial velocity, the inviscid Bernoulli equation head stays constant while discharge decreases. On a flat bed a regular control requires a positive local maximum of $q=Q/b$. In the parabolic-width channel $b=b_0(1+x^2/L^2)$, this maximum occurs at $x_c=-S{L}^2/(Q_0+\sqrt{Q_0^2+S^2{L}^2})$, with $q_c=(Q_0+\sqrt{Q_0^2+S^2{L}^2})/(2b_0)$. Its critical depth is $(q_c^2/g{)}^{1/3}$. A control exists only when the prescribed total head equals the maximum critical-head envelope and the reach includes that point while retaining positive discharge.