Hydraulic Modeling - Concepts and Practice

Description

This manual is intended to serve as a useful reference for people who engage in hydraulic modeling or who directly use the results obtained from hydraulic models. Early chapters provide a brief history of hydraulic modeling, outline strategies for designing models, and explain the underlying concepts of similitude and dimensional analysis. Those concepts are applied subsequently to various situations, beginning with single-phase flow of fluids; water and air are the fluids primarily considered in the manual. Subsequent chapters address the more complicated situations in which resort must be made to hydraulic models for engineering or technical information. One chapter covers the use of hydraulic models to investigate sediment transport by flow, especially alluvial-sediment transport, and flow in loose-boundary channels. Other chapters cover modeling of gas-liquid flows (notably air in water) and flows involving ice and debris transport. Hydraulic modeling of coastal processes, hydroelastic vibrations, and hydraulic machinery are explained in chapters devoted to those topics. One chapter discusses practical aspects of designing and operating hydraulic models. The manual's final chapter presents five case study examples. Content: Front Matter • Notation • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Similitude and Dimensional Analysis 3. Single-Phase Flow 4. Loose-Boundary Flow 5. Ice 6. Debris 7. Gas-Liquid Flows 8. Environmental Flows 9. Coastal and Estuary Processes 10. Hydroelastic Vibrations 11. Hydraulic Machinery 12. Design, Construction, and Operation of Hydraulic Models 13. Case Studies • References • Appendix: Water Properties Index