5. Edition - June 2009
41.90 Euro
2009. 424 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-6195-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-6195-4 - John Wiley & Sons






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Detailed description
This thorough update of a well-established textbook covers a core subject taught on every civil engineering course. Now expanded to cover environmental hydraulics and engineering hydrology, it has been revised to reflect current practice and course requirements.

As previous editions, it includes substantial worked example sections with an on-line solution manual. A strength of the book has always been in its presentation these exercises which has distinguished it from other books on hydraulics, by enabling students to test their understanding of the theory and of the methods of analysis and design.

Civil Engineering Hydraulics provides a succinct introduction to the theory of civil engineering hydraulics, together with a large number of worked examples and exercise problems with answers. Each chapter includes a worked example section with solutions; a list of recommended reading; and exercise problems with answers to enable students to assess their understanding.

The book will be invaluable throughout a student's entire course - but particularly for first and second year study, and will also be welcomed by practising engineers as a concise reference.

From the contents
The logical sequence of chapters will be retained, with increased cross referencing to provide a more unified feel:.

Properties of fluids; Fluid statics; Fluid flow concepts and measurements; Flow of incompressible fluids in pipelines; Pipe network analysis; Pump-pipeline system analysis and design; Boundary layers on flat plates and in ducts; Steady flow in open channels; Dimensional analysis, similitude and hydraulic models; Ideal liquid flow and curvilinear flow; Gradually varied unsteady flow from reservoirs; Mass oscillations and pressure transients in pipelines; Unsteady flow in channels; Uniform flow in loose-boundary channels; Basic hydraulic structures; Answers; Index; Conversion table (metric to imperial units).

An additional final chapter will be included to cover Environmental Hydraulics and Engineering Hydrology. This will introduce some broader water management issues, with references to appropriate further reading, and will include some numerical examples in keeping with the style of the book..

Some of the material, which relates to classical analysis developed before the advent of computers, will be trimmed, in particular the graphical methods for analysis of pressure transients in pipelines. However in other places, such as pump-pipeline system analysis and design, it is recognised that a graphical solution is appropriate both to develop understanding and for assessment purposes..

Less accessible older references (with the exception of some of particular historical significance) will be replaced, to link the text to more recent research and publications, particularly in the areas of urban drainage and the hydraulics of compound channels.