Question: ( 1 0 ) Since you are the rookie engineer at your company, the Yellowstone River Hydraulic Engineering Company located in Billings, Montana, your Boss
Since you are the "rookie" engineer at your company, the Yellowstone
River Hydraulic Engineering Company located in Billings, Montana, your
Boss wants to check on your skills. Your company has just completed
constructing an irrigation channel that delivers water from the Yellowstone
River to the Central Montana pea farmers located south of Billings. The
canal is rectangular, three meters wide and delivers a quantity of
The slope over the fivemile canal is and the channels roughness
coefficient is At a certain point in the channel flow reaches normal
depth. The Boss has asked you to calculate the following:
a The flow classification at normal depth. Is it supercritical or
subcritical?
b If a hydraulic jump is made to occur when the flow reaches normal
depth, what will be the sequential depth after the jump occurs?
c Estimate the energy head loss through the jump.
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