Overview
- Serves as an ideal complement to textbooks on hydraulics and fluid mechanics and will enable students to assess their own knowledge in preparation for exams
- Features more than 100 exercises with tips, answers and solutions
- Its gradual, step-by-step approach makes it particularly well suited to self-learning
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook offers a unique introduction to hydraulics and fluid mechanics through more than 100 exercises, with guided solutions, which students will find valuable in preparation for their preliminary or qualifying exams and for testing their grasp of the subject. In some exercises two different solution methods are proposed, to highlight the fact that the level of complexity of the calculations is often linked to the choice of method, though in most cases only the simplest method is presented. The exercises are organized by subject, covering forces on planes and curved surfaces; floating bodies; exercises that require the application of linear and angular momentum balancing in inertial and non-inertial references; pipeline systems, with particular applications to industrial plants; hydraulic systems with machines (pumps and turbines); transient phenomena in pipelines; and uniform and gradually varied flows in open channels. The book also features appendices that contain selecteddata and formulas of practical interest. Instructors of courses that address one or all of the above topics will find the exercises of great help in preparing their courses, while researchers will find the book useful as an accessible summary of the topics covered.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sandro Longo is full professor of Hydraulics at the University of Parma, where he teaches Hydraulics and Environmental and Coastal Hydraulics and where he is also director of the Hydraulics Laboratory. His research interests include water wave generation and numerical modelling of sea waves, sediment transport, turbulence analysis, debris flows, soil quality management, non-Newtonian fluids in porous media and flows in poroelastic media, gravity currents, stratified flows. He is author or co-author of three books on Dimensional Analysis, Water Waves Mechanics, Measurements and Hydraulic Control Systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Problems in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics
Authors: Sandro Longo, Maria Giovanna Tanda, Luca Chiapponi
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51387-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51386-3Published: 25 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51389-4Published: 26 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51387-0Published: 24 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-259X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2603
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 395
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 290 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Building Construction and Design