OPEN-CHANNEL HYDRAULICS.

Abstract

From the twin viewpoints of quantity and quality, water-resources projects are of paramount importance to the maintenance and progress of civilization as it is known today. The knowledge of open-channel hydraulics is essential to water resources development and the preservation of acceptable water quality has, along with other areas of engineering knowledge, exploded in the last two decades. To some degree this explosion of information is due to the advent of the high-speed digital computer which has allowed the hydraulic engineer to address and solve problems, which only 20 years ago would have been computationally too large to contemplate. This book is designed primarily as a reference book for the practicing engineer; however, a significant number of examples are used, and it is believed that the book can serve adequately as a text in either an undergraduate or graduate course in civil or agricultural engineering. This book approaches open-channel hydraulics from the viewpoint of presenting basic principles and demonstrating the application of these principles. This book, unlike the ones that have preceded it, emphasizes numerical methods of solving problems.