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The first International Conference on Hydraulic Design in Water
Resources Engineering held at Southampton University in 1984
brought together engineers interested in channels and channel
control structures. It was well attended, very successful and
generated papers relating to control and diversion structures,
sediment control facilities for headworks and intakes, canals under
quasi-steady flow conditions, computer simulation of irrigation and
drainage canal systems under unsteady flow conditions, and sediment
problems in rivers and the effects of engineering works on the
regime of rivers. The success of the first meeting was a major
factor in deciding to reconvene the Conference in April 1986, also
at Southampton University. The second conference is concerned with
the design, constructions and operation of land drainage systems
and the wealth of papers received for presentation is an indication
of how much this subject has developed in the last few decades. The
Conference is intended to bring together as much information as
possible in the field of Land Drainage together with forecasts of
future developments in this important subject. The Proceedings will
provide a unique reference and state-of-the-art presentation to all
interested in Land Drainage. The Proceedings incorporate the text
of a keynote lecture given by W. H. van der Molen, an eminent
researcher. His participation added to the prestige of the
Conference and the Editors would like to thank him most sincerely
for his contribution.
The development of water resources has proceeded at an amazing
speed around the world in the last few decades. The hydraulic
engineer has played his part: in constructing much larger
artificial channels than ever before, larger and more sophisticated
control structures, and systems of irrigation, drainage and water
supply channels in which the flow by its nature is complex and
unsteady requiring computer-based techniques at both the design and
operation stage. It seemed appropriate to look briefly at some of
the developments in hydraulic design resulting from this situation.
Hence the idea of the Conference was formed. The Proceedings of the
Conference show that hydraulic engineers have been able to acquire
a very substantial base of design capability from the experience of
the period referred to. The most outstanding development to have
occurred is in the combination of physical and mathematical
modelling, which in hydraulic engineering has followed a parallel
path to that in other branches of engineering science. The
Proceedings of this Conference will give to the reader an awareness
of the current state of hydraulic design in open channel flow and
open channel control structures. K.V.H. Smith Editor 1. CONTROL AND
DIVERSION STRUCTURES 1-3 FACTORS AFFECTING BRINK DEPTH IN
RECTANGULAR OVERFALLS G.C. Christodoulou, G.C. Noutsopoulos and
S.A. Andreou Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Technical Univ.
of Athens, Greece.
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