Handbook of Hydraulics, Eighth Edition

Fully Updated Hydraulics Engineering Concepts, Methods, and Practices

This thoroughly revised resource offers comprehensive coverage of every aspect of hydraulics. Handbook of Hydraulics, Eighth Edition, features the latest data and computational modeling techniques and clearly explains cutting-edge methods, processes, and technologies. You will get more than 80 dependable tables and graphs, sample equations, and real-world examples. This single source for on-the-job hydraulics engineering information will save time and ensure accuracy in performing hydraulic calculations. 

Coverage includes:

•Fluid properties and hydraulic units

•Hydrostatics

•Fundamental concepts of fluid flow

•Orifices, gates, and valves

•Weirs

•Pipes

•Steady uniform flow in open channels

•Open channels with non-uniform flow

•High-velocity transitions

•Wave motion and forces

•Spatially variable and unsteady flow

•Measurement of flowing water

•Computational hydraulics

•Physical and mathematical modeling of hydraulic structures