16. Water is flowing in a triangular channel with side slope of 1:1 at a discharge of 3 m³/s.

The
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING depth of water in the channel is 2.5 m.
CE 112 – HYDRAULICS a. Determine the specific energy.
b. Determine the Froude number.
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c. Determine the alternate depth.

MODULE 4 (PART 2) 17. The triangular channel shown (n=0.012) is to carry water at a flow rate of 10 m³/s.
OPEN CHANNEL FLOW a. Find the critical depth.
b. Find the critical velocity.
10. A trapezoidal channel has a bottom width of 6m. and side slope of 2 horizontal to 1 vertical c. Find the critical slope.
when the depth of flow is 1.2 m, the flow is 22 m³/s.
a. Compute the specific energy. 18. An open channel to be made of concrete is to be designed to carry 1.5 m³/s at a lope of
b. Compute the slope of the channel if n=0.014. 0.00085. Assuming n=0.013.
c. Compute the average shearing stress at the boundary. a. Determine the diameter for the most efficient section for a semi-circular section.
b. Compute the Froude Number?
11. A trapezoidal canal having side sloping at an angle of 𝜃 degrees with the horizontal is to c. What type of flow occurs here?
carry a discharge of 25 m³/s with an average velocity of 1.2 m/s.
a. Compute the depth of the canal if it will have a minimum seepage and 𝜃 = 60°. 19. A circular channel has a diameter of 3 m. The slope of the channel bed is 0.20° with a
b. Compute the depth of the canal to see if it will have a most efficient section. roughness coefficient of 0.016. The channel carries a discharge of 20 m³/s.
c. If the width of the base is twice as its depth, compute the depth of the canal for 𝜃 = a. Compute the normal depth.
67.38°. b. Compute the Froude No.
c. Determine the specific energy.
12. A channel has an optimum section of a trapezoidal canal. It is to carry a discharge of
18m³/s and a maximum velocity to prevent scouring of 0.85 m/s. Coefficient of roughness is 20. A circular section channel 3 m. in diameter has a depth of flow of 1.0 m. and is laid to a
0.018. gradient of 1:1000, and n=0.012.
a. Compute the depth of the channel section. a. Compute the hydraulic radius of the channel.
b. Compute the slope of the channel. b. Compute the rate of flow in the channel.
c. Compute the section factor of the channel section. c. Compute the mean boundary shear stress.

13. A trapezoidal concrete-lined channel of bed width 3.5 m. has a bed slope of 0.0005 with 21. The parabolic channel has an equation of y=2x². It carries a flow of 4 m³/s.
side slopes of 45° to the horizontal when conveying 40 m³/s of water. Mannings roughness a. Compute the critical depth.
coefficient = 0.014. b. Compute the critical velocity.
a. Compute the depth of uniform flow. c. Compute the critical slope if n=0.012 and friction factor = 0.014.
b. Compute the maximum shear stress on the sides of the channel.
c. Compute the maximum critical shear stress due to water flow on the sides if the critical 22. A river with the cross section shown experienced a 1438 m³/s flood and produced the
tractive force that will not cause erosion of the materials on the horizontal surface is 2.5 depth shown. The channel has a uniform slope of 0.0040.
N/m² and the angle of repose of the materials is 48°. a. Determine Mannings value of “n” for the main channel and overbank areas assuming
they are equal.
14. A trapezoidal channel has a bottom width of 3 m. and side slopes of 2.5 horizontal to 1 b. If Mannings “n” is known to be 0.020 in the main channel, determine value of “n” for
vertical. It carries a discharge of 24 m³/s. the overbank areas.
a. Compute the critical depth. c. What is the flow rate in the main channel if n=0.020.
b. Compute the section factor Z.
c. If the channel is on a horizontal curve having a radius of 27 m. and without super 23. From the given cross section of a canal shown, the channel slope is 0.0010, side slopes is 1:1.
elevation and the water surface at the inside of the curve is 1.5 m. above the channel a. Compute the total cross-sectional area.
bottom, find the water surface elevation at the outside of the curve. Assume the flow is b. Compute the total wetted perimeter.
subcritical. c. Compute the total discharge of the canal.

15. Water flows in a triangular steel channel at a velocity of 0.90 m/s with an angle at the vertex References:
of 55°. The channel bed has a slope of 0.0015 and a roughness coefficient of 0.015. 1. Besavilla, V.I. (1996) Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, 3rd edition.,VIB Publisher
a. Find the depth of flow. 2. Gillesania, Diego Inocencio [Link] mechanics and hydraulics, c2003, Leyte
b. Find the rate of flow.
c. Find the average depth of flow.

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