Water Resources Engineering. Handbook of Essential Methods and Design
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Author(s): A. Prakash
Publisher: ASCE
ISBN: 078440674X
Format: hardback
348pp
Price: $118.80
Review Date: 10 May 2004
Review: A typical water resources engineer in consulting practice needs to develop solutions to real-world hydrological and hydraulic problems fairly quickly using simple analysis and designs. Often the data available are limited and there are limited resources and time to collect any additional data. This book includes methods and equations that can be used in situations with variable levels of available data; in particular, where the available site-specific information is inadequate. Anand Prakash focuses on how to solve practical problems with the minimum literature search, and attempts to fit well-known equations to real-world conditions. He give methods of presenting preliminary designs that can be refined or modified after additional numerical or physical modelling, experimentation and field investigations. Chapters include: hydrological analyses; hydraulic analysis; groundwater; hydraulic designs; economic analysis; and environmental issues and monitoring.