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    1. A flow-duration curve plots discharge against the percentage of time the flow was equaled or exceeded, and is used to evaluate dependable flows for water resources projects, hydropower potential, drainage system design, and flood control studies. 2. To construct the curve, stream flow data is arranged in decreasing order and a plotting position is used to compute the probability of being equaled or exceeded. 3. An example calculates the 50% and 75% dependable flows from daily flow data over three years by determining the discharges that were equaled or exceeded 50% and 75% of the time.

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    1. A flow-duration curve plots discharge against the percentage of time the flow was equaled or exceeded, and is used to evaluate dependable flows for water resources projects, hydropower potential, drainage system design, and flood control studies. 2. To construct the curve, stream flow data is arranged in decreasing order and a plotting position is used to compute the probability of being equaled or exceeded. 3. An example calculates the 50% and 75% dependable flows from daily flow data over three years by determining the discharges that were equaled or exceeded 50% and 75% of the time.

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    1. A flow-duration curve plots discharge against the percentage of time the flow was equaled or exceeded, and is used to evaluate dependable flows for water resources projects, hydropower potential, drainage system design, and flood control studies. 2. To construct the curve, stream flow data is arranged in decreasing order and a plotting position is used to compute the probability of being equaled or exceeded. 3. An example calculates the 50% and 75% dependable flows from daily flow data over three years by determining the discharges that were equaled or exceeded 50% and 75% of the time.

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    Engineering Hydrology

    (ECIV 4323)
    Lecture 17

    Runoff
    Instructors:

    Dr. A-Majid Nassar

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    Flow-Duration curve
    - Is a plot of discharge against the percentage of time the flow was
    equaled or exceeded (Discharge-Frequency curve)

    -Step of construction the curve


    Stream flow discharge is arranged in decreasing
    order.
    Use class interval if we have very large number of
    records
    Use plotting position to compute the probability of
    equal or exceeded.

    -m= order number of discharge (class value)


    -N= number of data
    -Pp= percentage probability
    -Plot the discharge Q against Pp
    -Or semi-log or log-log paper
    Flow-Duration curve

    3
    Flow-Duration curve

    4
    Flow-Duration curve
    Flow-duration curves find considerable use in
    water-resources planning and development
    activities. Some of the important uses are:
    1. In evaluating various dependable flows in the
    planning of water-resources engineering
    projects;
    2. In evaluating the characteristics of the
    hydropower potential of a river;
    3. In the design of drainage systems;
    4. In flood-control studies;
    5. In computing the sediment load and dissolved
    solids load of a stream; and
    6. In comparing the adjacent catchments with a
    5
    view to extend the stream flow data
    Flow-Duration curve

    - The flow duration curve represents the cumulative


    frequency distribution

    -The percentage probability of time that flow magnitude


    in average year is equal or greater

    Example Q50 = 100 m3/s

    6
    Example

    The daily flows of a river for three consecutive years


    are shown in the table below. For convenience the
    discharges are shown in class intervals and the number
    of days the flow belonged to the class is shown.

    Calculate the 50 and 75% dependable flows for the river

    7
    Example
    Daily mean Total of Cumula- PP=
    discharge No. of days flow in each class interval couumns tive
    (m3/s) 2,3,4
    1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 1961-64 Total m
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    140-120.1 0 1 5 6 6 0.55
    120-100.1 2 7 10 19 25 2.28
    100-80.1 12 18 15 45 70 6.38
    80-60.1 15 32 15 62 132 12.03
    60-50.1 30 29 45 104 236 21.51
    50-40.1 70 60 65 194 430 39.19
    40-30.1 84 75 76 235 665 60.62
    30-25.1 61 50 61 172 837 76.30
    25-20.1 43 45 38 126 963 87.78
    20-15.1 28 30 25 83 1046 95.35
    15-10.1 15 18 12 45 1091 99.45
    10-5.1 5 - - 5 1096 99.91
    Total 365 365 366 N=1096 8
    Flow-Duration curve

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    Flow mass curve
    - The flow-mass curve is a plot of cumulative discharge
    against time plotted in sequential order

    -The flow-mass curve integral curve (summation curve)


    of the hydrograph

    10
    Flow mass curve

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    5.6 Flow mass curve

    - Unit is volume million m3 or m3/s day, cm over a


    catchment area

    -Slope of the mass curve =dv/dt =Q = flow rate

    -Average flow rate in the time between tm and tn

    -Slope of line AB is the average over whole period


    records

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