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Fluvial Hydraulics (Hardcover)
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Fluvial Hydraulics (Hardcover)
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Fluvial Hydraulics provides a sound qualitative and quantitative
understanding of water and sediment flows in natural rivers. This
understanding is essential for modeling and predicting hydrologic
and geomorphologic processes, erosion, sediment transport, water
supply and quality, habitat management, and flood hazards. This
book's coverage bridges the gap between the highly quantitative
mechanics-based civil-engineering approach to stream hydraulics and
the more qualitative treatments of fluvial geomorphology typical of
earth-sciences and natural-resources curricula. Measurements of
natural river flows illustrate many central concepts.
The book is specifically designed for upper-level students and
practitioners who are interested in a fundamental understanding of
river behavior. An introduction to the history of fluvial
hydraulics and an overview of the morphology and hydrology of
rivers provides the context for the rest of the text. A thorough
understanding of water properties, including turbulence, is
developed via a series of simple thought experiments. The bases of
the equations that are used to describe and predict river flows are
systematically presented, including dimensional analysis.
Subsequent chapters build logically on these foundations, covering
velocity distributions, new insights to the central topic of flow
resistance, the magnitudes of forces in natural river flows, the
principles of conservation of energy and momentum, the prediction
of water-surface profiles, the principles of flow measurement,
mechanics, and geomorphic aspects of sediment transport. The book
will be especially valuable in providing a scientific basis for the
growing field of river restoration.
An appendix reviews dimenstions, units, and numerical precision.
Over 250 references are cited, providing an entree to the extensive
multi-disciplinary literature on rivers. The book's website
provides suggestions for student exercises and makes available
extensive data bases of measured streamflows for student
exploration.
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