Cicely Roydon
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 310
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The book titled Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems is divided into two broad sections. The first eleven chapters encompass hydrology while the rest of the chapters deal with hydraulics. Chapter 1 examines the demands of water for water supply, navigation, irrigation, generating electricity (hydropower) and recreation. Various aspects of the hydrologic cycle, such as precipitation, evaporation and transpiration and runoff, are included in chapter 2, chapter 3 and chapter 4, respectively. Blaney- Criddle method and Penman-Monteith method is included in chapter 3. Chapter 5, chapter 6 and chapter 7 deals with theory, development and application of groundwater and groundwater flow and include ways in which groundwater is contaminated and methods adopted to prevent the same. Chapter 8 includes the methods and procedures adopted for streamflow measurement. Chapter 10 deals with hydrographs. The statistical process and their applications are discussed in this chapter. Chapter 11 discusses the extremities related to water flow- drought and flood; graphical, analytical, and empirical approaches for analyzing floods are covered, in addition to peak flow and peak snowmelt discharge. The rest of the book deals with applied hydraulics. Chapter 12 covers the flow problems, and the three basic equations, namely, the energy equation, the continuity equation, the momentum equation. Chapter 13 includes hydraulic structures. Dams, spillways, flumes, weirs, and other structures that are used for measuring and controlling the flow are described in this chapter. Chapter 14 discusses the conveyance system in detail. The idea of combining the power laws and the regime theory is introduced in the chapter. In addition to this, the concept of hydraulic jumps is incorporated in this chapter. Chapter 15 is all about the water distribution system. Chapter 16 covers all the aspects of the urban drainage system, starting from its types to layouts, to designing a drainage system, to the NRCS (SCS) TR-55 Method. Other drainage systems such as agricultural, surface, sub-surface and roadway drainage systems are discussed in chapter 17. Lastly, chapter 18 includes the utilization of remote sensing and computer modeling and software in hydrology. The concept of integrating hydrological methods and GIS is included in this chapter.