REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

NUEVA ECIJA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CABANATUAN CITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Civil Engineering

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION 2
(COMPRE 2)

HYDRAULICS
PROBLEM SET

Submitted by:

LUALHATI, ALVIN L.
BSCE-5A

Submitted to:

ENGR. EMMA C. SUAREZ

PROFESSOR
 HYDRAULICS
(PROBLEM SET)
1. What is the discharge capacity if a concrete pipe culvert 4 ft. in diameter and 10 m. long if the
difference in water level at the outlet is 1.52 m. Assume coefficient of discharge of C = 0.74

2. Horizontal orifice under a constant head of 1.30 m. issues a jet which hits a point 5 m. below the
centerline of the orifice and 5 m. horizontally from the vena contracta. What is the coefficient of
velocity?

3. A water tank is filled with water to a height of 4.3 m. above the 10 mm diameter orifice which is
connected at the side of the tank, how far would the water have traveled horizontally if the orifice
is 4.3 m. above the ground?

4. A tank cross circular in cross-section is 10 m. high. It takes 8.4 minutes to empty it thru a hole at
the bottom when the tank is full of water at the start. How long will it take for the water level to
drop the upper 3m?

5. Determine the discharge through an orifice 100 mm in diameter located at the bottom of the tank
containing water at a constant depth of 1.20 m. with an air pressure of 432 kN/m2 on top. Assume
coefficient of discharge to be 0.60

6. The discharge through a venture meter is 58 liters/sec. The diameter of the pipe is 75 cm. and the
area ratio is 4 to 1. If the value of C is 0.99, and the pressure head at the entrance is 6 m, find the
velocity and the pressure head at the throat

7. A 300 mm diameter pipe is equipped a 100 mm diameter orifice plate as shown. By the calibration
the discharge coefficient was determined to be 0.63. What is the discharged in the pipe if the
differential pressure registered during the flow equals 82.9 kPa?

8. A water tank with diameter 2m. is filled with water. If the water level is 3m above nozzle. If the
nozzle has a diameter of 12 mm, what is the discharge rate?

9. A 150 mm by 50 mm nozzle is attached to the end of a 100 mm pipe. The pressure at the base of
the nozzle where it joins the pipe is 415 kPa and the coefficient of velocity Cv = 0.98. Determine
the velocity of the jet.

10. Determine the discharge of a trapezoidal weir with the side inclined 14.04˚ with the vertical, the
head is 0.30 m. and the length of the crest is 2m.

11. A tributary area of 10 sq.km. receives a rainfall intensity of 30 mm/hr. the storm water are then
collected and will pass through a weir which is 45 m long. Determine the head of the weir using
Francis Formula.

12. A sharp crested contracted triangular weir with a weir angle of 80˚ carries water under a head of
0.955 m. Find the flow over the weir. C=0.60

13. A rectangular channel 7.5m wide has 1.2 m deep of water flowing with a mean velocity of 0.75
m/sec., determine the height of a standard sharp crested weir that will increase the depth in the
channel of approach to 1.8 m. Use Francis formula, neglecting the velocity of approach.
14. A symmetrical trapezoidal weir with side slope of 1H = 3V has waste water flowing through it, if
the head is 0.65 m and crest length of 6.25 with C’ = 0.60 (rectangular), C” = 0.63 (triangle), the
discharge is?

15. A V-notch weir is carrying 2.68 m3/s under a head of 1.12m. If the correction factor of flow is 0.65,
what its vertex angle?

16. A pipe has a diameter of 20 mm and a length of 80 m. A liquid having a kinematic viscosity of 4x10-
5 2
m /s is flowing thru the pipe at a viscosity of 3 m/s. Compute the Reynolds Number and friction
factor.

17. Pipes 1,2 and 3 are 300 m., 150 and 250 m. long and of 25 cm., 12 cm. and 20cm diameter with
f1, f2, and f3 equal to 0.019, 0.021 and 0.02 respectively and are connected in series. If the
difference in elevation of the ends of the pipe is 10 m., what is the rate of flow in cu.m./sec.
18. A closed conduit with 25 cm diameter is connected to a 20 cm. diameter pipe. If the velocity at
the second pipe is 4 m/s, what is the velocity of the first pipe?

19. The two pipes with the same friction factor are parallel. If the first pipe has twice the diameter of
the second, what must be the ratio of their lengths to assure equal flow?

20. A 150 mm pipes leaves a straight 100 mm pipe at joint A and later joins it again at C. The distance
AC on the straight 100 mm pipe is 600 m. How long would the 150 mm pipe have to be in order
that the flow in the two pipes maybe the same f = 0.02.

21. A rectangular channel 5.4 m wide by 1.2 m deep is lined with a smooth stone, well laid and has a
hydraulic slope of 0.001. Using n = 0.013. what is the capacity of the channel in m3/s.

22. A rectangular channel has a width of 3.6 m. with a roughness coefficient of 0.013. Compute the
critical flow at a depth of 1.20 m.

23. Given: Hydraulic radius is 1.503, Coefficient of roughness = 0.015 and slope energy gradient is
0.0009. Compute the coefficient C using Kutters formula.

24. The cross section of a right triangular channel is shown with a coefficient of roughness n = 0.012.
The rate of flow is 4 m3/s. Calculate the critical depth.

25. A rectangular channel 9m wide carries 7.65 m3/s when flowing 0.90m deep. Compute the specific
energy, the critical depth, and the critical velocity.

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26. The loss of head due to friction in an orifice nozzle or tube maybe expressed as ℎ𝐿 = where
2𝑔
V is the actual velocity of the jet. Given that Cv = 0.97 and Cc = 1.00

27. The diverging tube shown in the figure is discharging water when h = 2.7 m. The area at section 2
is 1.7 times the area of section 1. Neglecting all friction losses. Compute the velocity at throat.

28. A Borda mouthpiece 60 mm in diameter has a discharge coefficient of 0.52. Compute the
coefficient of velocity.
29. A drainage canal in the shape of trapezoid with the bottom width of 2.5 m and a side slope of 1
horizontal to 1.732 vertical or 60˚ with the horizontal carries water at a depth of 3m. Compute
the discharge in m with the horizontal carries water at a depth of 3m. Compute the discharge in
m3/sec using Mannings formula. S = 0.0004, n = 0.015.

30. Determine the discharge of a 2800 mm gravity flow concrete aqueduct with a hydraulic gradient
of 0,0015. Assume pipe is flowing full with coefficient of roughness = 0.015

31. Water can jump from a depth of 30cm to 75cm in a rectangular flume. Determine the discharge
in cu.m/sec if the flume is 2.75 m wide.

32. Water flows in a 2m wide rectangular flume at a rate of 2.75 cu.m/sec with a mean velocity of
3.5m/s. To what depth in cm can the water jump.

33. A vertical jet water thru a nozzle supports a load of 150 N. The velocity and the diameter of the
jet at the nozzle tip are 17.46 m/s and 3 cm. Find the distance of load from the nozzle tip in meters.

34. A 50 mm diameter horizontal jet of a water with a discharge of 0.054 m m/s strikes a vertical wall
90˚ to the wall. What is the force exerted on the wall?

35. A jet of water 25 mm in diameter and having a velocity of 7.5 m/s strikes against a plate at right
angles. Determine the force on the plate if the plate is moving in the same direction as the jet
with a uniform velocity.

36. A jet having a diameter of 75 mm and velocity of 16 m/s is deflected through an angle of 45˚
curved blade. Determine the vertical component of the force exerted.

37. Water flows through a 180˚ vertical reducing bend as shown. The discharge is 222 li/s and the
pressure at the center of the inlet of the bend is 68.91 kPa. If the bend volume is 0.085 m 3 and
irrotational flow is assumed, what reaction is required to hold the bend in place? Assume that the
metal in the bend weighs 15696 N.

38. A water tank with diameter 2m is filled with water. If the water level is 3m above the nozzle. How
far would the water have traveled if the nozzle is 6m above the ground?

39. If a jet is inclined upward 30˚ from the horizontal, what must be its velocity to reach over a 3m.
wall at a horizontal distance of 18m. neglecting friction?

40. A water tank with diameter 2m. is filled with water. If the water level is 3m above a nozzle. What
is the velocity of the water coming out of the nozzle?

41. A storm drain with a radius of 1.8 m flows half full. Find the hydraulic radius in meters

42. Given a fluid whose mass density is 750 kg/m3 and a bulk modulus of elasticity of 2.10x109 N/m2.
What is the celerity of the pressure wave?
43. A 1.8 m diameter pipe conducting water to a number of turbine is made from a steel plate 6 mm
thick. When the velocity of flow is 2.4 m/sec, a quick-closing gate operates to stop the flow. What
excess pressure is developed near the gate due to water hammer? What minimum time may be
taken in closing the gate without diminishing this pressure if the pipe is 4560 m long? EB = 2070
MPa, E = 207000 MPa.

44. If the velocity of the flow in a 600 mm cast iron pipe E = 82900 MPa be changed in 0.25 sec. from
0.6 m/s to 0 by closing a valve 300 m from a reservoir, what probable increase due in pressure
due to water hammer will be obtained close to the valve? The pipe wall is 20 mm thick. EB = 2070
MPa.

45. A tank contains three liquids, oil (sp. gr. = 0.80), gasoline (sp. gr. = 0.90), and sea water (sp. gr. =
1.05) with a depth of 0.6 m., 0.4 m., and 0.8m respectively. An orifice 100 mm in diameter is
located at the bottom with a discharge of 0.029 m3/s. Determine the coefficient of discharge C.

46. An orifice of 50 mm square, with C=0.60 is located on one side of a closed cylindrical tank. An
open mercury manometer indicated the pressure head of 300 mm in the air at the top of the tank.
If the upper 4m of the liquid is oil (sp. gr. = 0.80), and the remainder is water, the discharge in
m3/s through the orifice is?

47. Determine the shearing stress of a pipe having a head lost of 1.4m in a length of 1200m if it has a
radius of 200 mm.

48. The flow rate in a 30 cm. diameter pipe is 0.225 m3/s. The flow is known to be turbulent and the
centerline velocity is 3.70 m/s. Determine the head loss per meter of pipe.

49. The type of flow occupying in a 30 cm diameter pipe which water flows at a velocity of 2.10 m/sec.
Use v = 1.13 x 10-6 m2/sec for water.

50. A trapezoidal canal having a base width of 1.8m and a top width of 2.8m is 1.2m deep. If the
normal flow is 17.857 m3/s at 1.2 m. deep and coefficient of roughness n = 0.016, compute the
hydraulic slope.