COLEGIO DE MUNTINLUPA

Department of Civil Engineering

HYDRAULICS (LECTURE AND LABORATORY)

1st Semester, AY 2022-2023
CE3

EXERCISE No. 4
Fundamentals of Fluid Flow
Orifices, Weirs, and Tubes
22 September 2022

Deadline: on or before 11:59PM of 28 September 2022

If you will be submitting a PDF File:
File Name Format: Surname, Initials of First Name, Exercise No.
Example: Dela Cruz, J, E4

If you will be submitting photos (JPEG or PNG):

File Name Format: Surname, Initials of First Name, Exercise No. [page _ of _]
Example: Dela Cruz, J, E4 [1 of 2]

Instruction: Answers may be handwritten, digitally written. If handwritten solution, write legibly on a clean sheet
of paper/notebook. Show complete solution for full points. For intermediate answers, round off values up to four
decimal places only. Box your final answers and express in two decimal places only. After writing your solutions,
scan or take a photo of the solution per item. Please write your name and section on every page of your answers.

1. A liquid, sg = 12.5, is flowing in a 30mm-diameter pipe at 5 m/s.

a. What is the discharge in gpm?
b. What is the flow rate in mgd
c. What is the mass flow rate in kg/s?
d. What is the weight flux in kN/s?

2. A pipeline of 400 mm diameter carrying water at an average velocity of 6 m/s branches into three
pipes of 150 mm, 200 mm, and 350 diameters, respectively. If the average velocity in the 150 mm
pipe is 5/8 of the velocity in the main pipeline and the average velocity is 200mm pipe is ½ of velocity
of the 150mm pipe, determine the average velocity of flow in the 350 mm pipe and the total flow
rate in the system (in liters per second).

3. Water flows through a turbine at rate of 1.6 m 3/s from point A to point B which is 2m below the
former. The pressures at A and B are 251.4 kPa and -104.4 kPa, respectively. The diameter of pipe
at A is 400mm while diameter of pipe at B is 950mm. The head loss is 2m. How many kW are
delivered by the water to the turbine?

1 of 2
4. A vertical cylindrical tank has an orifice for its outlet at its bottom. When the water surface in the
tank is 6m above the orifice, the surface can be lowered 5m in 22 minutes. Coefficient of discharge
is 0.66. Diameter of the tank is 4m.
a. Compute the diameter of orifice, in mm.
b. How long will it take to empty the tank, in seconds?

5. If the value of discharge is equal to 0.95 m3/s and the weir length is 2m, find the following:
a. The required H for a rectangular channel
b. The required H for a rectangular channel, singly contracted
c. The required H for a rectangular channel, doubly contracted
d. The required H, considering Velocity of approach = 2.5 m/s
e. The required H for a triangular weir
f. The required H for a trapezoidal weir
g. The required H for a broad-crested weir

2 of 2