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 15  Problem  Set  

May  4,  2015  
 
Problem  1.  
 
Water  is  pumped  through  a  60m  long,  0.3  m  
diameter  pipe  from  a  lower  reservoir  whose  
surface  is  10  m  above  the  lower  one.  The  sum  of  
the  minor  loss  coefficients  for  the  system  is  
K=14.5.  When  the  pump  adds  40  kW  to  the  water,  
the  flowrate  is  0.20m3/s.  Determine  the  pipe  
roughness,  e  in  mm.  
 
 

Problem 2.

Water flows in a rectangular, concrete open channel that is 12.0 m wide at a depth of 2.5
m. The channel slope is 0.0028. If the Manning’s coefficient 𝑛 is equal to 0.013, find the
normal discharge.

Problem 3.

The  Coco  Tower  in  the  Philippines  is  approximately  87.5  meters  wide  and  154  
meters  tall.  
 
a) Determine  the  drag  on  this  building  if  the  drag  coefficient  is  1.3  with  respect  
to  perpendicular  area  and  the  wind  speed  is  uniform  (U=20m/s).    
 
b) Repeat  your  calculations  if  the  velocity  profile  against  the  building  is  a  typical  
profile  for  an  urban  area  (u=Cy0.4)and  the  wind  speed  halfway  up  the  
building  is  20  m/s.  (C  is  a  constant)