{"id":503,"date":"2024-07-02T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:21:10","slug":"section-factor-z-for-critical-flow-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/ce\/open-channel-flow\/section-factor-z-for-critical-flow-computation","title":{"rendered":"Section Factor (Z) For Critical Flow Computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\r\n<li>Section factor, <em>Z<\/em>, for critical flow computation, is the product of wetted area and square root of hydraulic depth.<\/li>\r\n<li>It is a function of depth y for a given channel geometry and is mathematically, defined as<\/li>\r\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322 alignlcenter aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/critical-flow.jpg\" alt=\"Critical Flow\" width=\"641\" height=\"270\" \/>Critical discharge, Q<sub>c<\/sub> is the discharge that would make the depth of flow \u2018y\u2019 critical.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/open-channel-flow\/specific-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/open-channel-flow\/assumptions-in-gradually-varied-flow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a> <br \/><strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-open-channel-flow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Open Channel Flow?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section factor, Z, for critical flow computation, is the product of wetted area and square root of hydraulic depth. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,2],"tags":[178,177,174],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-channel-flow","category-ce","tag-cal-discharge","tag-channel-geometry","tag-critical-flow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}