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This exciting new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study in water resources and hydraulics. Tailored specifically to fit the length of a typical one-semester course, it will prove a valuable resource to students in civil engineering, water resources engineering, and environmental engineering. It will also serve as a reference textbook for researchers, practicing water engineers, consultants, and managers. The book facilitates students' understanding of both hydrologic analysis and hydraulic design. Example problems are carefully selected and solved clearly in a step-by-step manner, allowing students to follow along and gain mastery of relevant principles and concepts. These examples are comparable in terms of difficulty level and content with the end-of-chapter student exercises, so students will become well equipped to handle relevant problems on their own. Physical phenomena are visualized in engaging photos, annotated equations, graphical illustrations, flowcharts, videos, and tables.
List of contents
Preface; How to use this textbook; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of hydromechanics; 3. Watershed and hydrologic processes; 4. Synthetic storm and design discharge; 5. Hydraulic machinery; 6. Open channel flow and channel design; 7. Pressurized pipe flow; 8. Hydraulic structures; 9. Groundwater hydraulics; 10. Unsteady-state flow; Appendix I. Notations; Appendix II. Constants and units conversion factors; Appendix III. Microsoft excel solver; Appendix IV. Derivative and integral; Appendix V. Hydrologic and hydraulic models; References; Index.
About the author
Xixi Wang is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Old Dominion University, where he is Director of the Hydraulics/Water Resources Engineering Laboratory. He has extensive teaching and research experience in hydrology, hydraulics, and water resources. He has published in many high-quality journals and has served as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Water Sciences, and has been an associate editor for the Journal of Spatial Hydrology, Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and Applied Engineering in Agriculture. In 2018, he won the Most Inspiring Faculty Award at Old Dominion University, and was awarded the National First Award of Science and Technology Research Excellent Achievement in a Higher Institution of China by the Chinese Education Ministry.
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This exciting new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study of water resources and hydraulics. Tailored specifically to fit the length of a typical one-semester course, it will prove a valuable resource to students in civil engineering, water resources engineering, and environmental engineering.
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'This is a well-designed hydrologic and hydraulic engineering textbook. It covers primary theories of hydrology and hydraulics with a lot of clearly explained examples. The unique design of annotated equations makes it very helpful for both teaching and learning.' Zoe Li, McMaster University
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'This is an excellent textbook for surface water and groundwater hydraulics, as well as water resources engineering. The systematic and detailed presentation of design examples and the high-quality problem sets at the end of each chapter are major strengths and should help the student grasp complicated concepts and design procedures.' Krishnanand Maillacheruvu, Bradley University
