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Curve Method - Advanced Hydrology - Problems, Exercises of Engineering Dynamics

These are the Problems of Advanced Hydrology which includes Excess Ordinate, Data, Area Method, Histogram, Calculation, Contribution etc.Key important points are: Curve Method, Spreadsheet, Column Lagged, Adding Columns, Fairly Constant, Lagged, Unit Hydrograph

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Convert the following 2-hr UH to a 3-hr UH using the S-curve method
Time (hr) 2-hr UH ordinate (cfs)
0 0
175
2250
3300
4275
5200
6100
775
850
925
10 0
Module 3
Example Problem
Unit hydrograph
Solution
Make aspreadsheet with the 2-hr
UH ordinates, then copy them in
the next column lagged by D=2
hours.Keep adding columns until
the row sums are fairly constant.
The sums are the ordinates of your
S-curve
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  • Convert the following 2-hr UH to a 3-hr UH using the S-curve method

Time (hr) 2-hr UH ordinate (cfs) 0 0 1 75 2 250 3 300 4 275 5 200 6 100 7 75 8 50 9 25 10 0

Example Problem

Solution

Make a spreadsheet with the 2-hr UH ordinates, then copy them in the next column lagged by D= hours. Keep adding columns until the row sums are fairly constant. The sums are the ordinates of your S-curve

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Time (hr)

2-hr UH

2-HR lagged UH’s Sum

Example Problem Contd…

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Time (hr) S-curve ordinate

S-curve lagged 3hr

Difference 3-HR UH ordinate 0 0 0 0 1 75 75 50 2 250 250 166. 3 375 0 375 250 4 525 75 450 300 5 575 250 352 216 6 625 375 250 166. 7 650 525 125 83. 8 675 575 100 66. 9 675 625 50 33. 10 675 650 25 16. 11 675 675 0 0

Example Problem Contd…

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Find the one hour unit hydrograph using the excess rainfall hyetograph and direct runoff hydrograph given in the table

Time (1hr) Excess Rainfall (in) Direct Runoff (cfs) 1 1.06 428 2 1.93 1923 3 1.81 5297 4 9131 5 10625 6 7834 7 3921 8 1846 9 1402 10 830 11 313

Example Problem

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