CE530- OPEN CHANNEL HYDRAULICS
SPRING 2005
SECOND MIDTERM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005, 1600-1715
Name: ________________________ S.S. No. _________________ Grade: ____________
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Instructions: Closed book, closed notes. Use engineering paper.
When you are finished, staple your work in sequence (1 to 3),
and return this sheet with your work.
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(30%) Calculate the design flow depth and bottom width of a trapezoidal channel
to be excavated in noncohesive alluvial material, with the following conditions:
Discharge: Q = 1000 cfs;
Side slope: z = 2;
Manning n = 0.02;
Bottom slope: So = 0.00055;
Angle of repose: θ = 30o;
Permissible tractive stress on level ground: τL = 0.3 lb/ft2
[Hint: Calculate flow depth y based on permissible tractive stress on the sides, and then
try several bottom widths b until the design discharge is satisfied].
- (30%) A weir is located at the downstream end of a wide rectangular
channel with bottom slope So = 0.01 and friction factor (1/8 of Darcy-Weisbach friction
factor) f = Sc = 0.0025. The upstream flow is supercritical,
and the steady discharge is q = 2 m3/s/m. A hydraulic jump forms in the steep channel.
Immediately upstream of the weir, the flow is subcritical, with depth 5 m.
- Calculate the upstream Froude number.
- Calculate the upstream flow depth.
- Calculate the sequent depth using the hydraulic jump equation (Eq. 3-21).
- Assuming a nearly horizontal profile downstream of the hydraulic jump,
calculate the approximate distance from the downstream end of the hydraulic jump to
the weir.
- (40%) Please answer the following questions in a brief statement.
- How many types of water surface profiles are they?
- What are the five upstream/downstream distinct values of depth gradient encountered in water-surface profiles?
- What is the difference between steady gradually varied flow and uniform flow? Give an example of an application of each.
- What is the difference between steady gradually varied flow and steady rapidly varied flow? Give an example of an application of each.
- What is the difference between steady gradually varied flow and unsteady flow? Give an example of an application of each.
- State five differences between the direct-step and standard-step methods of
steady gradually varied flow computation.
- What is the exponent of the rating under laminar flow conditions?
- What happens when a channel is dredged partially without a change in discharge? What happens when a channel is dredged throughout its length
without a change in discharge? How can dredging affect the hydrology? Explain.
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