HYDRAULIC MACHINES III

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW

Solution by DF Sozinando, Mechanical Eng. student at Vaal University of Technology

2-A drainage structure for an industrial park has a trapez oidal cross section sim ilar to that shown in Fig. The bottom width is 1.067 m and the sides are inclined at an angle of 60 deg from the horizontal. Compute the hydraulic radius for this channel when the fluid depth is 0.457 m ?

Solution: b := 1.067 m L := 1m Given D sin( ) = L sin( ) L := Find( L) L = 0.264 m

:= 60deg := 30deg

D := 0.457 m

B := 2 L + b = 1.595 m

A :=

1 2 A P

D ( B + b ) = 0.608 m

x :=

D + L = 0.528 m

P := 2 x + b = 2.122 m

Z :=

Z = 0.287 m