Synopses & Reviews
Analysis of open-channel flow is essential for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects. The use of computers and the availability of efficient computational procedures has simplified such analysis and made it possible to handle increasingly complex systems. In Open-Channel Flow, Second Edition, author Hanif Chaudhry draws upon years of practical experience and incorporates numerous examples and real life applications to provide the reader with: Numerous applications of efficient solution techniques, computational procedures, and numerical methods suitable for computer analyses; Comprehensive coverage of steady and unsteady flow techniques; New and updated chapters on sediment transport, uniform flow, two dimensional flow techniques and other topics; Updated and new problem sets and exercises; A detailed solutions manual is available to instructors assigning this text as the primary book in the course. Open-Channel Flow, Second Edition is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses that covers both steady and unsteady open-channel flow.
Review
Aus den Rezensionen zur 2. Auflage: "... In dem ... Handbuch ... wird ausführlich auf die Theorie der unterschiedlichen Fließzustände, die zu berücksichtigenden Bedingungen und Auslegungsansätze, den Sedimenttransport u. v. a. m. eingegangen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt wird auf die Umsetzung der Berechnungen in den unterschiedlichen Programmen und Verfahren sowie den jeweils zu beachtenden Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Randbedingungen gelegt, so dass dieses Werk nicht nur für Einsteiger von Interesse sein dürfte."(in: WasserWirtschaft, 2008, Vol. 98, Issue 10, S. 69.)
Review
From the reviews of the second edition: "Analysis of open-channel flows is essential for planning, design and operation of water-resource projects. ... The book contains new and updated problems and exercises, a solutions manual for instructors ...
Synopsis
Open Channel Flow, 2nd edition is written for senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses on steady and unsteady open-channel flow. The book is comprised of two parts: Part I covers steady flow and Part II describes unsteady flow.
Synopsis
Open Channel Flow, 2nd edition is written for senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses on steady and unsteady open-channel flow. The book is comprised of two parts: Part I covers steady flow and Part II describes unsteady flow. The second edition features considerable emphasis on the presentation of modern methods for computer analyses; full coverage of unsteady flow; inclusion of typical computer programs; new problem sets and a complete solution manual for instructors.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Basic concepts.- Conservation laws.- Critical flow.- Uniform flow.- Graduation varied flow.- Computation of gradually varied flow.- Rapidly varied flow.- Computation of rapidly varied flow.- Channel design.- Special topics.- Unsteady flow.- Governing equations for one-dimensional flow.- Numerical methods.- Finite-difference methods.- Two-dimensional flow.- Finite-element methods.- Special topics.- Appendices.- Computer program for velocity-head and momentum coefficients.- Computer programs for critical depth.- Computer programs for normal depth.- Computer programs for gradually varied profiles. - Computer program for unsteady flow - lax scheme.- Computer program for unsteady flow - MacCormack scheme.- Computer program for unsteady flow - Preissman scheme. - Indexes.