Analysis of open-channel flows is essential for 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 the book, the author draws upon years of practical experience and incorporates numerous examples and real life applications to provide the reader with efficient solution techniques, computational procedures, and numerical methods suitable for computer analyses. Complete coverage of steady and unsteady flow techniques is included together with a new chapter on sediment transport and updated chapters on uniform flows and two-dimensional flow techniques. The book contains new and updated problems and exercises, a solutions manual for instructors (available on www.springer.com), and a CD-ROM with short computer programs in FORTRAN that include the input data for sample problems and the associated computer output.
The book is written for using in senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses on steady and unsteady open-channel flows and for civil engineers which need state-of the art information on the latest developments and techniques in the field.