Open-Channel Flow

Analysis of open-channel flow is essential for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects. The use of computers and the availability of efficient computational procedures has simplified such analysis, and made it possible to handle increasingly complex systems.

In Open-Channel Flow, Second Edition, author Hanif Chaudhry draws upon years of practical experience and incorporates numerous examples and real life applications, to provide the reader with:

• A strong emphasis on the application of efficient solution techniques, computational procedures, and numerical methods suitable for computer analyses;

• Complete coverage of steady and unsteady flow techniques;

• A new chapter on sediment transport and updated chapters on uniform flow and two dimensional flow techniques;

• New and updated problem sets and exercises, a solutions manual for instructors.

Open-Channel Flow, Second Edition is written for students in senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses on steady and unsteady open-channel flow and for civil engineers needing up-to-date and relevant information on the latest developments and techniques in the field.

• MacCormack scheme
• Preissman scheme
• Profil
• calculus
• channel design
• complex systems
• computational procedures
• conservation laws
• critical flow
• numerical methods
• open-channel flow
• uniform flow
• water resource
• water quality and water pollution

From the reviews of the second edition:

"Analysis of open-channel flows is essential for planning, design and operation of water-resource projects. … The book contains new and updated problems and exercises, a solutions manual for instructors … The book is written for using in senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses on steady and unsteady open-channel flows and for civil engineers which need state-of the art information … in the field." (Nina Shokina, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1149, 2008)

• University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  M. Hanif Chaudhry

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