Question

What is the velocity of flow in an asphalt channel that has a hydraulic radius of 3.404 m, length of 200 m and bed slope of 0.005?

Answer 1

Answer:

The velocity of flow is 10.0 m/s.

Explanation:

We shall use Manning's equation to calculate the velocity of flow

Velocity of flow by manning's equation is given by

$V=\frac{1}{n}R^{2/3}S^{1/2}$

where

n = manning's roughness coefficient

R = hydraulic radius

S = bed slope of the channel

We know that for an asphalt channel value of manning's roughness coefficient = 0.016

Applying values in the above equation we obtain velocity of flow as

$V=\frac{1}{0.016}\times 3.404^{2/3}\times 0.005^{1/2}\\\\\therefore V=10.000m/s$