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VewYork: \lcCraw,llill. 1999. l. r) Flow of riveraroundbridgepiers. 1r) Movementof flood surgedownstream. Obscner ( I ) Sranding oDbridge. (2) ln boar,drifting. ( l) Standing on bank. (l) Moving\\ith surge. 2. lc. Explainyour answer. 3. The river flow at an upstreamgaugingstationis tneasured to be 1500nrr/s,and at anothergaugingstation3 km downstream, rhe discharge is nreasured to be 750 mr/s at the sameinstantof lime. Is it rising or falling? 4. whichextends acrossthelot widthof 30 m. Rainfallis occurringat a uniforminrensity of l0 cm,4rr If the detentionstorageon the pavedsectionis increasingat the rateof 60 m],/hr,what is the runoff rate into the inlet grate?

12. Thc lonSiludinalvclocity. i and the shcarvclocity. Develop the dimcnsional anallsis for thc point veloclty. r. 13. /:the velocity of lhe approachflow. Why *as the fluid dcnsity not includedin the list of variables? weir. 0, is a function of lhe headon the \\'clt crest. 14. The dischargeover a sharp-crested H: the crest length. p: surfaceleng. Cirry out the dimensionalanall sis using p. sion. o; and gravitationalacceleration. L, how would you aller the depcndentlI group? 1 ENERGY Dlrl-INITIONOF SPECIFIC 'fhe concept of specificenergyas introducedby Bakhneteff ( 1932) has proven to be rcry uscful in the analysisof open channeltlow.

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