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School of Civil Engineering and Architecture (SoCEA)

Department of Water Resources Engineering (WRE)

Civil Engineering 4th year


Open Channel Hydraulics Work Sheet

Note: Write down the reasons for each question you answered
1. Uniform flow in open channel is characterized by
A. A constant slope of channel bottom
B. A constant depth of flow
C. A changing depth of flow
D. None of the above
2. An open channel flow is one in which
A. The solid boundaries confining the flow are open to the top
B. The liquid flowing in a closed conduit has a free surface
C. A closed conduit is full of flowing liquid
D. None of the above
3. A channel without any cover at the top is known as:
A. Natural channel
B. Open channel
C. Artificial channel
D. Pipe channel
4. A channel with constant bed slope and the same cross section along its length is known
as
A. Natural channel
B. Open channel
C. Prismatic
D. Artificial channel
E. Pipe channel
5. Open channel flow takes place
On a free surface/in the pipe/within a cylindrical depth/in a pump. Discuss your answer
6. The energy grade line is always than the hydraulic grade line.
Above/Below/At same level/If none specify it Discuss your answer
7. If the flow characteristics of a channel does change with time at any point. What type of
flow is it?
Unsteady flow/Uniform flow/Laminar flow/Turbulent flow. Discuss your answer
8. The flow in a pipe or channel is said to be non-uniform when
A. The liquid particles at all sections have the same velocities
B. The liquid particles at different sections have different velocities
C. The quantity of liquid flowing per second is constant
D. Each liquid particle has a definite path
Discuss your answer
9. The ratio of inertia force of a flowing fluid and the gravity force of the liquid is called:
A. Reynold’s number
B. Froude’s number
C. Euler’s number
D. Weber’s number
Discuss your answer
10. The Reynolds number for a flow in a channel is 800. What type of flow is it?
A. Laminar
B. Turbulent
C. Transition
D. Steady
Discuss your answer
11. In the uniform flow in a channel of small bed slope, the hydraulic grade line
A. coincides with the bed
B. is considerably below the free surface
C. is considerably above the free surface
D. essentially coincides with the free surface
Discuss your answer
12. In defining the Froude number applicable to channels of any shape, the length
parameter used is the
A. Depth of flow
B. Hydraulic radius
C. Wetted perimeter
D. Ratio of area to top width
Discuss your answer
13. If the depth of water in an open channel is greater than the critical depth, the flow is
called
A. Critical flow
B. Turbulent flow
C. Tranquil flow
D. Torrential flow
Discuss your answer

14. Calculate the wetted perimeter for a rectangular channel having top width of 5m and
depth of 3m
15. Calculate the hydraulic radius for a channel having 20m2 cross sectional area and 50m
of wetted perimeter.

16. A rectangular channel has a depth of 6m and width of 12m. Calculate the hydraulic
depth of the channel.

17. What is the Froude’s number for a channel having mean velocity 5 m/s and mean
hydraulic depth of 4m?
18. A trapezoidal channel of bed width of 3 m and side slope of 1.5 H: 1 V carries a flow
of 10 m3/s with a depth of 2.0 m. What is the Froude number?
19. The drainage pipe is made of finished concrete and is sloped downward at 0.002.
Determine the volumetric flow from the pipe if the center depth is y=0.3 m.Take
n=0.012
20. The channel is made of unfinished concrete. If the slope is 0.004, determine the volumetric
flow when the depth y=3 m. Is the flow subcritical or supercritical? Take n=0.014.

21. A drainage structure for an industrial park has a trapezoidal cross-section. The bottom
width is 3.50m and the sides are inclined at an angle of 60o from the horizontal. Compute
the hydraulic radius for this channel when the fluid depth is 1.50
22. The channel is made of finished concrete and has the cross section shown. If the downward
slope is 0.0008, determine the flow of water through the channel when y=2.5 m.Take
n=0.012. (Hint: Use the concept of combined channel(

23. A triangular gutter, whose sides include an angle of 60oconveys water at a uniform depth
of 250 mm. If the discharge is 0.04 m3/s, then determine the gradient of the trough (bed
slope). Take Chezy’s constant as 52.

24. The wetted perimeter for a circular channel in terms of radius ,R and angle α is equal to
A. Rα.
B. 2Rα.
C. Rα/2.
D. 3Rα.
25. Define the following terms,
I. depth of flow, II. Top width, III. Wetted area, IV. Wetted perimeter, (v)
hydraulic radius and VI. Hydraulic depth.
26. Determine the average cross-sectional velocity and the discharge for the compound
channel shown

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