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Code No: V3103/R07

III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, May 2010 WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING-I (Civil Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks ????? 1. (a) Hydrology is a highly inter-disciplinary science, Justify. List out various practical applications of Hydrology.

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(b) A basin has the area in the form of a pentagon with each side of length 20 Km. The five raingauges located at the corners A, B, C, D and E have recorded 60, 81, 73, 59 and 45 mm of rainfall respectively. Compute average depth of rainfall over the basin using arithmetic mean and Theissen polygon methods. [8+8]

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2. (a) List out the various climatic factors affecting runoff. Specifically discuss the effect of the direction of storm movement and the antecedent precipitation on the peak discharge.

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(b) Explain how runoff is estimated using Khosla’s method.

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3. (a) Sketch a typical hydrograph resulting from an isolated storm and explain different features of it.

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(b) Given below are the ordinates of a 4 h unit hydrograph of a basin in m3 /s at one hour intervals. Convert it into 3 hr UH. [8+8] 4 25 44 60 72 61 52 45 38 32 27 22 18 14 11 8 6 4 2 1

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4. (a) Describe in steps, the Muskingum method of flood routing if the values of K and X are known for a given channel reach. What should be limiting value of routing step ∆t.

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(b) Between two reaches A and B of a river, the values of Muskingum coefficients determined are K = 24 h and X = 0.20. Take outflow at the beginning of routing step equal to inflow. Find the outflow hydrograph at B. [8+8] Time (h) Inflow (m3 /sec)

12 24 36 48 14 22 36 93

60 72 84 96 108 120 141 102 86 73 61 50

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144 26

156 168 20 16

5. (a) Define the following terms: i. Aquifer, aquiclude, perched aquifer ii. specific yield, piezometric surface, water table, (b) Find out the velocities of the ground water flow with the following data, using Slichter and Hazen?s constants as 400 and 800 respectively. Viscosity coefficient of water at groundwater temperature of 100 C = 1, Effective size of the particles in the aquifer = 0.1mm, Hydraulic gradient = 1 in 80. [8+8] 1 of 2


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