Irrigation Engineering [1]

91) Dicken’s formula for high flood discharge is useful for catchments in

  • (a) Southern India
  • (b) Northern India
  • (c) Eastern India
  • (d) Western India

92) In order to estimate the high flood discharge in fanshaped catchment, the formula used is

  • (a) Dicken’s formula
  • (b) Ryve’s formula
  • (c) Inglis formula
  • (d) Fanning’s formula

93) The estimation of flood can be made

  • (a) by physical indication of past floods
  • (b) by flood discharge formulae
  • (c) by unit hydrograph
  • (d) all of the above

94) Which of the following method is useful for obtaining values of flood discharges for a high recurrence interval ?

  • (a) California method
  • (b) Hazen’s method
  • (c) Gumbel’s method
  • (d) all of these

95) A graph showing variations of discharge with time, at a particular point of a stream is known as

  • (a) mass inflow curve
  • (b) logistic curve
  • (c) hydrograph
  • (d) none of these

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