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The document outlines a home assignment for a course in Advanced Hydraulic Engineering, consisting of various tasks related to open-channel flow situations, velocity distribution, and flow calculations in channels. It includes specific problems such as estimating discharge, afflux due to a bridge, and analyzing flow characteristics in different scenarios. Students are required to apply hydraulic principles to solve these problems.

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The document outlines a home assignment for a course in Advanced Hydraulic Engineering, consisting of various tasks related to open-channel flow situations, velocity distribution, and flow calculations in channels. It includes specific problems such as estimating discharge, afflux due to a bridge, and analyzing flow characteristics in different scenarios. Students are required to apply hydraulic principles to solve these problems.

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Home Assignment: 1

CE 625: Advanced Hydraulic Engineering

1. Write some relevant information regarding a river near your hometown.

2. Classify the following open-channel flow situations:


a) Flow from a sluice gate
b) Flow in a main irrigation canal
c) A river during flood
d) Flow due to breaking of a dam
e) Flow over a spillway
f) Sudden opening of a sluice gate
g) Spreading of irrigation water on a field
h) Flow in a sewer

3. The velocity distribution along a vertical in a channel can be expressed as v/vmax =


(y/y0 )(1/n) where y0 = depth of flow, v = velocity at any height y above the bed, and n
is a constant. Find the values of α and β.

4. A rectangular channel curved in the vertical plane is 2.0 m wide and has a centreline
radius of 5.0 m. The velocity distribution at a radial section can be considered to be an
irrotational vortex, i.e. v = C/r. The depth of flow is 1.50 m and is constant along the
channel. For a discharge of 6.0 m2/s, find
a. the velocity distribution
b. the average velocity (c) the correction factors α and
β.

5. In a rectangular channel, the flow has a free overfall. The velocity measurement at the
end section where the flow was curvilinear is indicated in Fig. Estimate the discharge
per unit width of the channel.
6. Afflux is the net differential water-surface elevation between the upstream and
downstream sections of a constriction to the flow. A 15 m wide rectangular canal, has
a two-span bridge at a section. The bridge pier is 0.80 m wide and its coefficient of
drag CD is estimated as 2.0. If the depth of flow downstream of the bridge is 2.0 m for
a discharge of 80 m3/s in the canal, estimate the afflux due to the bridge.

( Hint: The drag force on the bridge pier = CD*a*ρ*V/2, where a = projected area of
the pier offered to the flow.)

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