Assignment

6 Problem
Due Friday 24th April, in Friday Tutorial (Assignment 5 is also be due at this time)

Water from a process plant is discharged through an open rectangular channel.

The flow is 5m^3/s , the slope of the channel is S = 0.0015 and the channel walls have a
Mannings coefficient of n = 0.013.

Find:
a) What is the most efficient width of channel to deliver this flow. [ans.: b=2.2meters]

b) What is the flow regime of this flow (with channel width of b=2.2m). [ans.: Subcritical
with Fr=0.64]

c) If b=2.2m, what slope of channel would produce a super critical flow regime. [ans.:
S>0.0038]

Assume uniform flow for all calculations.