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07-Str-B11: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Branched Supply Network — Fire Flow and Maximum-Day Pressures
  2. Question 2 Nine Identical Pipes Linking Two Reservoirs
  3. Question 3 Transmission Main Throttled by an In-Line Valve
  4. Question 4 Wall Shear Stress from a Pipe Force Balance
  5. Question 5 Momentum Across a Hydraulic Jump
  6. Question 6 Curbed Roadway Analysed as an Open Channel

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National Examinations — May 2014 — 07-Str-B11 Hydraulic Engineering. Three-hour, CLOSED-BOOK examination; one 8.5 × 11 in aid sheet (both sides) and any non-communicating calculator are permitted. The paper prints six questions of 20 marks each and instructs the candidate to complete any five; where a question has more than one part, the parts carry equal marks. Candidates are urged to submit a clear statement of any interpretive assumptions with the answer paper. All six questions are worked below, because this set is intended as a study resource.

Reference texts: Mays, L.W., Water Resources Engineering (3rd ed., Wiley) — Hazen-Williams pipe hydraulics, branched and looped network analysis, transmission mains and valve characteristics; Chin, D.A., Water-Resources Engineering (3rd ed., Pearson) — North-American distribution practice, fire-flow criteria, minimum service pressures and gutter hydraulics; Chow, V.T., Open-Channel Hydraulics (McGraw-Hill, 1959) — uniform flow, Manning’s equation and the momentum treatment of the hydraulic jump; Henderson, F.M., Open Channel Flow (Macmillan) — specific force, conjugate depths and jump classification; White, F.M., Fluid Mechanics (7th ed., McGraw-Hill) — the control-volume force balance that links wall shear stress to the Darcy friction factor.

Notation and conventions used throughout. The paper supplies the SI Hazen-Williams form \(Q = 0.278\,C\,D^{2.63}S^{0.54}\) with \(Q\) in m3/s, \(D\) in metres and \(S = h_f/L\); it is used exactly as printed. Writing \(K = 0.278\,C\,D^{2.63}\) inverts it to the head-loss form \(h_f = L\,(Q/K)^{1.852}\), the exponent \(n = 1.852\) being the value the paper itself quotes in its loop-correction note. Local losses and velocity head are neglected, as instructed in Note 6, so the hydraulic grade line (HGL) and the energy grade line coincide and “pressure head at a node” means \(p/\gamma = \mathrm{HGL} - z\). Water properties are \(\rho = 1000\) kg/m3 and \(\nu = 1.31\times10^{-6}\) m2/s.