GATE Hydraulics: Channel hydraulics: specific energy, critical flow, uniform flow, hydraulic jump – Previous Year Questions
16 GATE previous year questions on Channel hydraulics: specific energy, critical flow, uniform flow, hydraulic jump (Hydraulics, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q60 – A hydraulic jump occurs in a 1.0 m wide horizontal, frictionless, rectangular channel, with a pre-jump depth of 0.2 m and a post-jump depth of 1.0 m.…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q35 – A 2 m wide rectangular channel is carrying a discharge of 30 m3/s at a bed slope of 1 in 300. Assuming the energy correction factor as 1.1 and…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q41 – A round-bottom triangular lined canal is to be laid at a slope of 1 in 1500, to carry a discharge of 25 m3/s. The side slopes of the canal…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q59 – A rectangular channel is 4.0 m wide and carries a discharge of 2.0 m3/s with a depth of 0.4 m. The channel transitions to a maximum width contraction…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q20 – The number of degrees of freedom for a natural open channel flow with a mobile bed is
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q57 – A standard round bottom triangular canal section as shown in the figure has a bed slope of 1 in 200. Consider the Chezy's coefficient as 150 m1/2/s.…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q58 – A spillway has unit discharge of 7.5 m3/s/m. The flow depth at the downstream horizontal apron is 0.5 m. The tail water depth (in meters) required to…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q16 – A hydraulic jump occurs in an open channel when the slope of the channel changes from .
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q42 – Consider flow in a long and very wide rectangular open channel. Width of the channel can be considered as infinity compared to the depth of flow.…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q60 – A hydraulic jump is formed in a 5 m wide rectangular channel, which has a horizontal bed and is carrying a discharge of 15 m3/s. The depth of water…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q62 – A 5.0 m wide rectangular channel carries a discharge of 10 m3/s at a depth of 1.5 m under uniform flow. To produce critical flow conditions without…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q52 – Width (in m) of a rectangular channel required to carry a discharge of 96 m3/s at a critical depth of 9.8 m is (*rounded off to two decimal places*).…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q55 – The flow depth for a discharge of 10 m3/s in a wide rectangular channel is 2.0 m. Assume that the flow is uniform. If the discharge is doubled, the…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q23 – Gradually Varied Flow (GVF) profiles in open channels given in Column 1 are to be matched with the water surface slopes in Column 2 in the table…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q40 – For a hydraulic jump formed in a rectangular horizontal channel, the sequent depth ratio is 2. The Froude number of supercritical stream is
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q54 – A wide unlined channel carries sediment-free water. The depth of water is 1 m. The specific weight of water is 10 kN/m3. To prevent scouring, the…