Experimental Hydraulics: Methods, Instrumentation, Data Processing - Volume I: Fundamentals and Methods

Principles. Apractical guide for the design of laboratory and field experiments, selection of appropriate instrumentation and experimental methodologies, as well as for conducting and analyzing experimental studies. Providing an end-to-end guidance to support experimentalists in the design and collection of the targeted data with prescribed accuracy. Currently, many studies are carried out in laboratories under less than ideal conditions that significantly influence the experimental outcomes e.g., secondary currents, flume aspect ratio and development length, etc and with instruments that are not always well tunned to the measurement

List of contents

Introduction
Role of experiments in complementing analytical approaches
Open-channel flow types and characteristics
Selection of instruments and facilities (lab and field)
Flow visualization
Modern instrumentation for hydraulic experiments (lab& field)
Velocity
Bathymetry and morphology
Discharge
Sediment transport
Auxiliary hydrodynamic variables
Environmental Flows
Data acquisition
Data processing and mining
Uncertainty analysis
Data models

About the author

Marian Muste, Dennis A. Lyn, David Admiraal, Robert Ettema, Vladimir Nikora, Marcelo H. Garcia

Summary

A practical guide for the design of laboratory and field experiments, selection of appropriate instrumentation and experimental methodologies, as well as for conducting and analyzing experimental studies.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis A. Ettema Lyn, Marian Muste, Marian Lyn Muste
• Assisted by: David Admiraal (Editor), David M. Admiraal (Editor), Robert Ettema (Editor), Ettema Robert (Editor), Marcelo H. Garcia (Editor), Garcia Marcelo H. (Editor), Dennis A. Lyn (Editor), Marian Muste (Editor), Marian (Editor-in-Chief) Muste (Editor), Muste Marian (Editor), Vladimir Nikora (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138038165
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03816-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: IAHR Monographs; IAHR Monographs
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Civil engineering, surveying and building