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College of Engineering and Architecture
Civil Engineering Department

CE-316: HYDRAULICS
PLATE NO.7 – CHAPTER 7
“FLUID FLOW MEASUREMENT”

Direction: Write the questions and your detailed solution (including the units in the
computation) on our given plate. Round off your answers to 3 decimal points.

1. The discharge through a 75 mm diameter orifice at the bottom of a large tank

was measured be 1734 liters in 1 minutes. If the head over the orifice remain
constant at 5.5 m, compute the coefficient of discharge.

2. Water flows through an orifice at the vertical side of a large tank under a
constant head of 2.4 m. How far horizontally from the vena contrata will the
jet strikes the ground 1.5 below the orifice.

3. A jet is issued from the side of a tank under a constant head of 3 m. The side
of the tank has an inclination of 1H to 1V. The total depth of water in the tank
is 6. M. Neglecting air resistance and assuming Cv = 1 , determine the following

a. The maximum height to which the jet will rise

b. The point it strike a horizontal plane 1.2 m below the bottom of the tank
c. The velocity of the jet at it strike the ground.

4. An open cylinder tank 4 m in diameter and 10 m high contains 6 m of water

and 4 m of oil (sp.gr = 0.8). Find the time to empty the tank through a 100 mm
diameter orifice at the bottom. Assume Cc = 0.9 and Cv = 0.98

5. A tank in the form of a frustum of a right circular cone 1.5 m in diameter and
the bottom, 3 m diameter at the top, and 3.5 m high, is full of water. A sharp
edged orifice with C = 0.62 is located at the bottom of the tank. What
diameter of orifice is needed to empty the tank in eight minutes?

6. During a test on a 2.4 m suppressed weir 900 mm high, the head was
maintained constant if 300 mm. In 38 seconds, 28800 liters of water were
collected. What is the weir factor Cw?

7. A V-notch weir is located or cut at one end of a tank having a horizontal square
section 10 m by 10 m. If the initial head on the weir is 1.2 m and it takes 375
seconds to discharge 100 m3 of water, what could have been the vertex angle
of the weir. Use C = 0.6

8. Water flows through a parabolic weir that is 2 m deep and 2 m wide at the top
under a constant head of 1.5 m. Assuming C = 0.65, determine the discharge
through the weir.