Water Velocity Question: Impact of Pipe Length on Flow Rate

[R1Kiwi]

Have the answers put your mind at ease, that this scenario as flawed, and won't sustain the desired action?

 

[vin300]

Lowering tank C will affect the water heights - that is why flow rate will increase.But will increasing the tube from B to A or C to A affect the velocity of the water at the top of the tube from B to A where the water comes out.

Initially assume the system is in equilibrium. So nothing's happening. Now you want to experiment by changing the length of the tubes. So you have telescopic water carrying tubes (I don't know whether such a thing is available). I don't see any way you can control the length of the tubes independently. Assume you found some way to do that too.
When you increase the length from A to C, the length of the water column would increase. This would pump out water as in the diagram. When you decrease this length, it will not only cause the spurting to slow and reverse direction, the spurting will occur underwater from the other pipe in tank A.
When you control only the length from A to B, increasing the height would decrease the velocity and vice versa.
If both the lengths are changed simultaneously, it isn't an easy answer.

 

[Physicist1011]

The air tubes are generally considered unrestricted here so their length doesn't introduce added loss.

How does decreasing the height between A and B increase the speed of the water coming out of the fountain in A.

 

[russ_watters]

How does decreasing the height between A and B increase the speed of the water coming out of the fountain in A.

If you raise B without touching A, you increase the static head between B & C; and that's the driving force for the flow.

 

[kartikey]

The length of the pipe will of course effect the velocity of water at the bottom. let the point from where water is coming be a and from where it is going out be b. then for streamline flow of water apply bernoulli's theorem at a and b. That is Pressure + 0.5 (rho)( v^2) + h (rho) g = constant
here rho= density
v=velocity
h=height (length in your case)
After applying bernoulli's theorem you will find that velocity of waste at bottom is dependent on length