Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 76 3 d Solution 2026-10-14
Bed and sidewall stress, turbulent mixing at the interface, wave radiation and hydraulic jumps convert or remove mechanical energy. In the specified local head-loss model, differentiate while keeping constant:At a regular hydraulic control the coefficient of vanishes. Therefore requiresThus the control moves to the widening downstream side, . This is the exact local compatibility condition; it is the head-loss correction to hydraulic control with loss expressed as Bernoulli potential per unit length.
For a small loss and a control remaining near the throat, use the lossless depth and . The leading displacement isFor a finite loss, the local derivative alone does not specify the accumulated loss from the far-upstream reservoir, so it does not fix a unique revised discharge or numerical control depth. Given , the exact condition can instead be solved implicitly for ; if the inviscid discharge is imposed, it becomes . The small-displacement root is the one continuous from the throat. This distinction avoids treating the original upstream energy as unchanged after an unspecified finite upstream loss.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 90 1 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Model the specified drag by a prescribed head loss, . A modified conserved head is consequentlywith an arbitrary reference constant absorbed into . More generally the last term is . The effective bed elevation for the shallow-water specific energy calculation is . The critical momentum equation becomesThis is the head-loss correction to hydraulic control.
When , , and regularity at gives . Therefore, for ,The effective bed has a strict maximum there, with elevation increment relative to .
Let and require . At the control . At the shallow-water specific energy is , while at the control it is . Equality of the modified head gives . HenceThe inlet has and is supercritical flow; the branch whose depth increases into the control makes the required smooth transition. At the control the increasing branch has slope , as follows by expanding the modified head to second order.
The numerical discharge uses a constant loss rate on the entire segment from to . The wording specifies that rate only near the control, which is sufficient to locate but does not by itself determine the inlet-to-control head loss. If the loss elsewhere is unspecified, write . The same calculation gives and ; the boxed value is the constant-loss specialization.