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Key Features - Changes to Second EditionOpen Channel Hydraulics 2e
by Terry W. SturmOpen Channel Hydraulics is intended for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students in the general fields of water resources and environmental engineering. The purpose of the text is to present modern numerical techniques for the solution of open channel flow problems in the current personal computing environment, as well as to emphasize recent experimental results and their application in free surface flows. In addition, focus is placed on the application of basic principles of fluid mechanics to the formulation of open channel flow problems so that the assumptions and limitations of existing numerical models are made clear.
The combination of theoretical, experimental, and numerical techniques applied to open channel flow provides a synthesis that has become the hallmark of modern fluid mechanics.KEY FEATURES:
• The book is a useful addition to any consulting engineer’s library, as well as a practical textbook on the fundamentals of open channel flow.
• Each chapter contains worked-out example problems to aid in the understanding of the text material. Wherever possible, solutions are given in dimensionless form in graphs to promote an intuitive feel of the physics of the problem.
• At the end of each chapter, exercises are presented that involve application of the material previously learned and encourage student exploration of further ramifications of the text material. CHANGES TO THE SECOND EDITION:
>NEW! Chapter 11 on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
> Additional Material covering:
- Long-throated flumes as flow measuring devices
- Flood control design including Corps of Engineers riprap revetment design procedure
- Reservoir outflow control using gated spillways
- HEC-RAS implementation of WSPRO bridge backwater computation methods
- HEC-RAS unsteady flow module for flood routing
- Introduction to pier and abutment scour countermeasures
> Expanded and updated material on turbulent flow resistance, grass lining of channels for stability, and hydraulic jump in rough channels.
> 25% more illustrative Examples and end-of-chapter Exercises.
Visit the text’s website at www.mhhe.com/sturm for various resources available to instructors and students.Electronic Textbook Options
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