Tutorial on Flow Nets

Eng.Janaka Priyantha

Flow nets

1. What do you see as errors in the following flownets?

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4. a) What is the meaning of Unconfined flow?

b) What is the meaning of Equipotential line?

c) What is the meaning of Flow lines and Flow channel ?

d) What is the basic equation and its assumptions you use to calculate the discharge

per unit length?

e) What is “Critical hydraulic gradient”

f) What is “piping” and what is the condition to be satisfied for that?

g) What is the meaning of “Permeability”

h) What is the meaning of “Exit Gradient” ?

i) If the porosity of a soil is n, how do you relate the Seepage velocity with porosity ?

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