Author Description
Your one-stop answer guide to hydraulics engineering and design. Turn to Handbook of Hydraulics, Seventh Edition, for the tables, formulas, computer applications, and other resources you need to design and engineer virtually any hydraulic system. Bringing Ernest F. Brater and Horace W. King's last edition into the 21st century, James E. Lindell and C.Y. Wei have revised and updated this unmatched advisor--coverting all constants to metric units--to give you powerful solutions governing: Viscosity, surface tension, and elasticity; fluid pressures and hydraulic forces; laminar, turbulent, steady, and unsteady flows; oscillatory, breaking, and wind-generated waves plus shore erosion control' flow through orifice gates, tubes, weirs, and pipes; uniform and nonuniform flow in open channels; high-velocity transitions through straight-walled, enlargement, and curved-wall constrictions; unsteady open channel and spatially variable flow; flow measurement with meters, pilot tubes, venture flumes, and other devices; computer-based numerical methods; much more.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This handbook serves as a comprehensive technical reference for the design, analysis, and engineering of diverse hydraulic systems. The authors, building upon the foundational work of Brater and King, provide a modernized framework that integrates contemporary computer applications with classical fluid mechanics principles. The text is structured to assist professional engineers and students in solving complex problems related to fluid behavior and structural interaction.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Comprehensive tables and formulas for fluid properties including viscosity, surface tension, and elasticity.
- Methodologies for analyzing laminar, turbulent, steady, and unsteady flow regimes.
- Technical guidance on open channel flow, pipe flow, and high-velocity transitions.
- Integration of computer-based numerical methods for hydraulic modeling.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on engineering applications and does not provide exhaustive theoretical derivations for every physical phenomenon.
- It assumes a baseline knowledge of calculus and fluid mechanics, omitting introductory-level tutorials.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts recognize this volume as a standard reference tool for civil and hydraulic engineers due to its extensive collection of empirical data and practical design formulas. Readers frequently note the high density of technical information and the utility of the metric unit conversions for international project applications.
Page Count:
640
Publication Date:
1996-03-22
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN-10:
0070072477
ISBN-13:
9780070072473
Hydraulics
Engineering
Civil Engineering
Mechanical
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