GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2023 Shift 1 Solved Paper

A very wide rectangular channel carries a discharge (Q) of 70 m³/s per meter width. Its bed slope changes from 0.0001 to 0.0009 at a point P, as shown in the figure (not to scale). The Manning’s roughness coefficient of the channel is 0.01. What water surface profile(s) exist(s) near the point P?