CIV E 530 - OPEN-CHANNEL HYDRAULICS

SPRING 2017 - MIDTERM 1 - SOLUTION

PROBLEM 4

    a.

    The exponent of the discharge-area rating: β.


    b.

    Gravity, friction, pressure gradient, and inertia. The wind force is missing from a conventional open-channel flow analysis.


    c.

    W/D > 10


    d.

    Under Manning friction, the neutral-stability Froude number is 2.


    e.

    Maximum value of Manning's n: n = 1, applicable to the Everglades flow modeling, in Southern Florida.


    f.

    Seddon waves are kinematic, with small dimensionless wavenumber; Lagrange waves are dynamic, with large dimensionless wavenumber. They are the same for Vedernikov number V = 1.


    g.

    For a hydraulically wide channel, the critical slope is the same as the dimensionless Chezy friction factor, that is, 1/8 of the Darcy-Weisbach friction factor.


    h.

    To lower the reservoir level through the service pipes as much as possible or warranted, in anticipation of heavy storms, in the absence of workable spillways.


Problem 1

 
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