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Soil Class Porosity Effective Porosity Wetting Front Suction Head SF (CM) Hydraulic Conductivity K (CM/HR)

This 3-hour examination tests students' understanding of hydrology concepts through 10 multiple choice or short answer items. The items cover topics like types of rain, infiltration calculations, unit hydrograph development, time of concentration estimations, and the hydrologic cycle. Students are provided tables of soil properties, streamflow data, unit hydrographs and asked to perform calculations, identify parameters, or discuss key ideas at a high level.

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Soil Class Porosity Effective Porosity Wetting Front Suction Head SF (CM) Hydraulic Conductivity K (CM/HR)

This 3-hour examination tests students' understanding of hydrology concepts through 10 multiple choice or short answer items. The items cover topics like types of rain, infiltration calculations, unit hydrograph development, time of concentration estimations, and the hydrologic cycle. Students are provided tables of soil properties, streamflow data, unit hydrographs and asked to perform calculations, identify parameters, or discuss key ideas at a high level.

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CE 3107 Hydrology

Final Requirement

This examination has time limit of 3 hours. Answer the different items to the best of your ability.

1) Give two types of rain according to their lifting mechanisms and discuss each concisely.

2) Calculate the cumulative infiltration and the infiltration rate on a loam soil after one hour of rainfall at 50mm/hr if the
initial effective saturation is 30 percent. Assume that ponding depth is negligible.

Soil Class Porosity  Effective Porosity Wetting Front Hydraulic Conductivity K


e Suction head Sf (cm) (cm/hr)
Loam 0.463 0.434 8.89 0.34
(0.375-0.551) (0.334-0.534) (1.33-59.38)

3) Given in the table below is a stream flow hydrograph. Determine the volume of direct runoff by separating the base
flow using the recession curve method. Semilogarithmic plot of the hydrograph is shown in Fig B.

Time Flowrate
4) A residential catchment has an area of 1.6 sq km. The catchment length
from A, which is the catchment boundary, to the outlet B is 1250 m and the
(days) (cu.m/s)
average ground slope is 3.5%. At the catchment location the 10-year storm has
1 356.00
the intensity duration frequency relation given in eq 1. The surface cover has
2 336.00
roughness coefficient of n=0.025 and the effective rainfall may be estimated as
3 1112.00
80% of the rainfall intensity from the IDF. Estimate the time of concentration
4 2512.00
0.6
5 2100.00 6.99  nL 
using Kinematic wave equation, the formula is tc = 0.4  
ie  so 
6 1444.00
7 980.00
8 760.00
9 624.00 For a 10-yr storm: i = 335.82 − 60.95ln(t )  Eq1
10 500.00 where i is in mm/hr and t is the duration in minutes
11 412.00
12 356.00 5) The schematic diagram of a drainage basin which is divided into four
13 316.00 subbasins is shown in the following figure. Calculate the peak discharge at the
14 284.00 outlet (point 3) for a rainfall event that has a return period of 10 years. Use IDF
15 256.00 curve expressed as i10=6880/(t1.02+36. 74)
16 230.00

Ad=4ha
Cd=0.75 A =8ha
tcon=12min c

Aa=3ha C =0.70
c

Ca=0.15 Ab=6ha t
con
=16min

tcon=8min Cb=0.6
tcon=14min
inlet inlet inlet
Outlet of
1 L=200m 2 L=250m 3 the basin
T =3min T =4min
1-2 2-3
6) Suppose the parameters for Philip’s equation are sorptivity S=45 cm/hr1/2 and K=10 cm/h. A uniform
rainfall causes ponding after 15 minutes. Determine the infiltration rate at t=1hr. Also compute the
cumulative infiltration for the first 1 hour of rain.

Figure B (For Problem 3)

7) The 4-hour unit hydrograph of a certain catchment is given in the table below. Determine the 2-hour unit hydrograph.

Time 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 0200 0400 0600 0800 1000 1200
4-hour UH 0 2.1 3.8 5.2 5.15 4.4 3.25 2.25 1.5 0.85 0.4 0.15 0
(m3/s)

8) A catchment soil has a Horton infiltration parameter: f0=240 mm/hr, fc=30 mm/hr and k=0.2 min-1.
Calculate the infiltration rate right after two hours. Assuming a rain of constant intensity of 50 mm/hr
occurs and lasts fo 3 hours, calculate the amount of rain that infiltrates into the soil.
9) Discuss the hydrologic cycle concisely with accompanying diagram.
10) The 2-hour unit hydrograph of a certain catchment is given in the table below. Determine the 3-hour unit
hydrograph.

Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

2-hour UH 0 1.3 3.8 5.2 5.15 4.4 3.25 2.25 1.5 0.85 0.4 0.10 0
(m3/s)

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