VEITS

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1.5.1911 Samarkand/RU - 10.1.1944/RU

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Il'ya Alexandrovich Veits graduated in 1935 from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute as a hydraulic engineer. From 1934 he was a collaborator of the Leningrad Hydrotechnical Laboratory VNIIG. He passed away at an age of only 33 years during World War II.

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Veits worked in both theoretical and experimental hydraulics, where he developed especially into an expert of drainage engineering and the hydraulics of energy dissipation. Further he was interested in the effects of turbulence that govern the mechanism of energy dissipation as applied in the large hydro complexes of Russian dams. He proposed a number of novel approaches to stilling basins, such as Veits weirs in which the water flow is controlled by the weir structure and dissipated by a particular energy dissipator. His approach was also extended to navigation locks and to drainage works. His proposal was widely used in the 1950s for an economic design of low-head hydropower schemes on Russian rivers. Veits investigated the Kuybishev Dam scheme on the Volga River, the Svetlogorsk Dam on the Dneipr River, and the Solikamsk Dam on the Vilva River close to Perm.

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_{Melua, A.I. (2001). Veits, Iliya Aleksandrovich. Power engineering specialists of Russia: 75.}

_{VNIIG: Saint Petersburg (in Russian).}

_{Veits, I.A. (1940). On pressure determination on plane gates in closed conduits. Leningrad (in Russian).}

_{Veits, I.A. (1946). The complex construction — the spillway of hydropower scheme Shloss.}

_{Leningrad (in Russian).}

_{Veits, I.A. (1947). The main hydraulic problems of junction flows. Leningrad (in Russian).}