► Description: |
This book presents key
principles of the hydraulics of river
basins, with a unique focus on the
interplay between stream flows and
sediment transport. Addressing a number of
basic topics related to the hydraulics of
natural waterways, it above all emphasizes
applicative aspects in order to provide
the reader with a solid grasp of river
engineering.
The first chapter explores many of the
fixed base hydraulic topics that are
normally neglected in traditional texts,
namely the effects on motion produced by
the vegetation and macroroughnesses that
characterize many mountain streams. The
remaining chapters are devoted entirely to
hydraulics with mobile riverbeds and put
particular emphasis on inhomogeneous river
channels.
The book’s approach goes beyond classical
treatments, so as to not only introduce
readers to the fundamentals of mobile
riverbeds, but also enable today’s river
engineers to successfully design and
maintain natural riverbeds.
■ contents:
• Roughness in Fixed-Bed Streams
• Introduction to Sediment Transport
• Initiation of Sediment Motion
• Resistance to Flow in Mobile-Bed
Channels
• Bedload Transport
• Suspended Transport and Total Transport
• Mathematical Models of Riverbed
Evolution
• Local Scours
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