Fluvial Hydraulics
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195172868 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lawrence Dingman is the author of the most widely used university-level hydrology textbook (Physical Hydrology; 2nd ed. S. 2002) and a pioneering book introducing earth-sciences and natural-resources students to the hydraulics of natural streams (Fluvial Hydrology, 1984). He has also taught in the University of New Hampshire's Hydrology Program for 30 ye
In summary, the text will be a welcome and important addition to the fluvial geomorphic literature." Professor Douglas Allen, Department of Geoscience, U.C.Berkeley. This will be an excellent book." Professor Sean Campbell, Dpartment of Geography, University of Kentucky"but the relevance of the subject matter to a variety of water resource issues ensures that the text will have strong appeal to environmental engineers/scientists/planners, stream ecologists, aquatic biologists, and so forth. Listed in New Books, Physics Today May 2010new book announcement in Geomorhorum (N
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. 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. Over 250 references are cited, providing an entree to the extensive multi-disciplinary literature on rivers. An appendix reviews dimenstions, units, and numerical precision. The book's website provides suggestions for student exercises and makes available extensive data bases of measured streamflows for student exploration.. The book will be especially valuable in providing a scientific basis for the growing field of river restoration. 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