CWR 4202 – Hydraulics Fall 2017

Assignment 7: Friction formulae for calculating flow

(Online Assessment is Due Thursday, October 19 by 5:00PM)
This assignment will be submitted as an online assessment. The online assessment will be based
upon the following questions and the methods used to solve each problem. Work through this
problem set and then complete the corresponding online assessment on the UF e-learning site
http://elearning.ufl.edu/ to receive credit for your work. Your grade is based solely upon the
assessment, you do not need to hand in a hard copy.

Problem 1 (requires iterative solution using methods developed in Modules 6 and 7)

A circular concrete pipe must be sized to carry water from a reservoir of constant elevation to a
fruit processing plant that is 500 m away. The water level in the reservoir is 35 meters and
gravity will carry the water through the pipe to the plant situated at an elevation of 32 meters.
Assume the design flow is 0.25 m3/s, the equivalent sand roughness of the pipe is 0.0006 m, and
the water is at 15°C (kinematic viscosity, υ = 1.14 x 10-6 m2/s). Assume an inlet loss coefficient
of cin = 0.5, a valve loss coefficient of cvalve = 2.0, and a pipe outlet loss of cout = 1.0.
Determine the following.

a) characteristic PL value
b) pipe diameter (m)
c) mean flow velocity
d) confirm that the correct flow range was used for the calculations using R/ks, Re’, and Rew.
e) friction factor
f) slope of the energy grade line
g) shear stress
h) friction velocity
i) What pipe diameter would you select from the following table of commercially available
pipe sizes for your current design?

Concrete Pipe Sizes   
Pipe  Metric  Wall 
Arch  Area  Weight 
Size  Equivalent  Thickness 
Equiv.  (ft²)  (lbs/ft) 
(in.)  (mm)  (in.) 
15  18x11  375  1.2  140  2¼ 
18  22x13  450  1.8  180  2½ 
24  29x18  600  3.1  286  3 
30  36x23  750  4.9  402  3½ 
36  44x27  900  7.1  654  4¾ 
42  51x31  1,050  9.6  810  5¼ 
48  58x36  1,200  12.6  1,010  5¾ 
54  65x40  1,350  15.9  1,208  6¼ 
60  73x45  1,500  19.6  1,475  6¾ 
72  88x54  1,800  28.3  1,810  7 
     
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Problem 2

Consider the following network of 11 pipes where the inlet head is HA = 12 m and the outlet
head is HB = 7.0 m. Heads at intermediate nodes are illustrated but not provided (HC, HD, HE, HF,
HG, HH, and HI).

HF

HE
HI

2 3 4
10 11 HB = 7.0m
HA = 12.0m 5 8
1 6
7 9

HH
HC
HD
HG

The characteristic PL values for all 11 pipes are specified in the table below:

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11
5 15 8 12 4 10 23 8 10 8 15

Answer the following questions assuming flow is rough turbulent (Range III) and that all units
are consistent.

a) Determine PL-sys = PL(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)

b) Determine total flow (Q) through system
c) Determine the total head loss in pipes 1,2,3,4,10, and 11.
d) What should the sum of the losses from part (c) equal? Check that this condition is met.
e) Determine HC
f) Determine HE
g) Determine HF
h) Determine HC-F
i) Determine HH
j) Determine HI