Applied Hydraulics
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-4822-1760-5 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook covers the most important topics in open channel hydraulics, hydraulics of pressurized flow and sediment transport. It offers a unique balance between theory, modelling, and real-world applications.
It is concise and mathematically rigorous, and builds on continuity and momentum conservation principles to present a sound description of a wide range of turbulent flows which are significant in hydraulic engineering. These include critical flow conditions, flow resistance, gradually and rapidly varied flow, such as flow over weirs and hydraulic jumps. A unified description of free surface, pressurized and mixed flow is presented. A clear distinction is made between continuous and discontinuous flow and transport processes. The implications for modelling are highlighted. Properties of unsteady flow are analysed mathematically and simplified models are deduced (kinematic and diffusive wave approximations). Inception of sediment motion, bed and suspended load transport are also discussed, together with an introduction to morphodynamic modelling.
Chapters end with case studies, such as lock design, flood risk management, operation of mobile weirs, hydropower or reservoir sedimentation, as well as with exercises or worked out examples. It suits advanced undergraduates and graduate students in environmental or civil engineering with an elementary background in fluid mechanics.
It is concise and mathematically rigorous, and builds on continuity and momentum conservation principles to present a sound description of a wide range of turbulent flows which are significant in hydraulic engineering. These include critical flow conditions, flow resistance, gradually and rapidly varied flow, such as flow over weirs and hydraulic jumps. A unified description of free surface, pressurized and mixed flow is presented. A clear distinction is made between continuous and discontinuous flow and transport processes. The implications for modelling are highlighted. Properties of unsteady flow are analysed mathematically and simplified models are deduced (kinematic and diffusive wave approximations). Inception of sediment motion, bed and suspended load transport are also discussed, together with an introduction to morphodynamic modelling.
Chapters end with case studies, such as lock design, flood risk management, operation of mobile weirs, hydropower or reservoir sedimentation, as well as with exercises or worked out examples. It suits advanced undergraduates and graduate students in environmental or civil engineering with an elementary background in fluid mechanics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oakville
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Civil and Environmental Engineering 4th year undergraduates, Graduate students in hydraulics, Hydrologists in water companies and environment agencies
Illustrations
100 s/w Abbildungen
100 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-1760-5 (9781482217605)
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Persons
Prof. Benjamin J. Dewals is Associate Professor in Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources
Management at the University of Liege where he received his PhD in 2006. His main research interest is numerical modeling with focus on multiphase flows, particularly sediment transport and reservoir sedimentation. He has conducted research in several leading European institutions and his research outcomes are documented in more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, 120 conference papers and several book chapters. Presently, he is working on the sustainable management of hydraulic structures. Amongst other involvements in professional boards, he is elected member of the Leadership Team of the IAHR European Division. Since 2001 he has been a member of the core development team of the academic modelling system WOLF.
Dr Sebastien ERPICUM has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (2006) on optimisation of parameters in turbulent free surface flow modelling on multiblock grid, during which he has been conducting research at RWTH Aachen (Germany). From then, his job has moved towards coupled numerical-experimental research and he was promoted to executive manager of the laboratory of Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Liege.
Dr Pierre ARCHAMBEAU has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (2006) on several
contributions to hydraulic modelling from the development of a physically based hydrological model to flood modelling. At present, he is continuously working on several hydrologic modelling topics and the development of the WOLF modelling system.
Prof. Michel PIROTTON has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (1994) on Hydrological and hydraulic modelling of runoff and river flows. He is currently full Professor at the University of Liege and invited Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He has supervised 11 PhD students in Belgium and abroad. In addition, Prof. M. PIROTTON is vice-president of AQUAPoLE, an interdisciplinary research and competence centre in water sciences serving public, regional and international institutions as well as private companies. Prof. Michel PIROTTON coordinates a team of 17 researchers contributing, among other research activities, to the development of the modelling system WOLF, which covers hydrological processes, fluvial hydraulics and flow on structures. He also operates the laboratory of Engineering Hydraulics of the University of Liege, which constitutes a large experimental facility (1500 m (2)) used both for validating and enhancing numerical models and for the design of hydraulic structures.
The research group HECE, through this experimental and numerical know-how, has been involved in many regional, national and European research projects and have published in several international journals such as Environ. Fluid Mech., J. Hydraul. Res., Houille Blanche-Rev. Int, Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids and J. Comput. Appl. Math.
Management at the University of Liege where he received his PhD in 2006. His main research interest is numerical modeling with focus on multiphase flows, particularly sediment transport and reservoir sedimentation. He has conducted research in several leading European institutions and his research outcomes are documented in more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, 120 conference papers and several book chapters. Presently, he is working on the sustainable management of hydraulic structures. Amongst other involvements in professional boards, he is elected member of the Leadership Team of the IAHR European Division. Since 2001 he has been a member of the core development team of the academic modelling system WOLF.
Dr Sebastien ERPICUM has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (2006) on optimisation of parameters in turbulent free surface flow modelling on multiblock grid, during which he has been conducting research at RWTH Aachen (Germany). From then, his job has moved towards coupled numerical-experimental research and he was promoted to executive manager of the laboratory of Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Liege.
Dr Pierre ARCHAMBEAU has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (2006) on several
contributions to hydraulic modelling from the development of a physically based hydrological model to flood modelling. At present, he is continuously working on several hydrologic modelling topics and the development of the WOLF modelling system.
Prof. Michel PIROTTON has obtained a PhD from the University of Liege (1994) on Hydrological and hydraulic modelling of runoff and river flows. He is currently full Professor at the University of Liege and invited Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He has supervised 11 PhD students in Belgium and abroad. In addition, Prof. M. PIROTTON is vice-president of AQUAPoLE, an interdisciplinary research and competence centre in water sciences serving public, regional and international institutions as well as private companies. Prof. Michel PIROTTON coordinates a team of 17 researchers contributing, among other research activities, to the development of the modelling system WOLF, which covers hydrological processes, fluvial hydraulics and flow on structures. He also operates the laboratory of Engineering Hydraulics of the University of Liege, which constitutes a large experimental facility (1500 m (2)) used both for validating and enhancing numerical models and for the design of hydraulic structures.
The research group HECE, through this experimental and numerical know-how, has been involved in many regional, national and European research projects and have published in several international journals such as Environ. Fluid Mech., J. Hydraul. Res., Houille Blanche-Rev. Int, Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids and J. Comput. Appl. Math.
Content
Introduction. Governing Equations. Characteristic Form of the Equations. Energy in Open Channel Flows. Gradually Varied Flows. Rapidly Varied Flow. Simplified Models. Turbulence Modelling in Open Channel Flow. Introduction to Sediment Transport. Bedload and Suspended Load.