Fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology and water resources for civil engineers / Amithirigala Widhanelage Jayawardena.

Includes bibliographical references and Index.

Table of Contents. – Ch. 1 Fluid mechanics - - Continuum approach - - Properties of fluids - - Hydraulics - - Hydrology. – Ch. 2 Historical development of the science of water. – Ch. 3 Fluid statics - - Manometry. – Ch. 4 Fluid Kinematics. – Ch. 5 Governing equations of fluid motion - - System to control volume transformation - - Momentum equation (differential form) - - Constitutive relationships (stress – rates of strain relationships) - - Navier-Stokes equation. – Ch. 6 Ideal fluid flow - - stream function and velocity potential - - Circulation and vorticity. – Ch. 7 Viscous fluid flow – Boundary layer. – Ch. 8 Dimensional analysis - - Buckingham’s pi theorem - - Modelling ratios - - Velocity ratio. – Ch. 9 Fluid flow measurements. – Ch. 10 Pipe flow. – Ch. 11 Pipe Network. – Ch. 12 Fluid machinery. – Ch. 13 Applications of basic fluid flow equations. – Ch. 14 Turbulence. – Ch. 15 Turbulence modelling. – Ch. 16 Computational fluid dynamics. – Ch. 17 Open channel flow. – Ch. 18 Gradually varied flow in open channels. – Ch. 19 Rapidly varying flows. – Ch. 20 Hydraulics of alluvial channels. – Ch. 21 Channel stability analysis. – Ch. 22 Sediment transport and deposition. – Ch. 23 Environmental hydraulics. – Ch. 24 Major hydraulic structures in the world. – Ch. 25 Hydro-meteorology. – Ch. 26 Hydrological cycle and its principals processes. – Ch. 27 Precipitation. – Ch. 28 Evaporation and evapo-transpiration. – Ch. 29 Infiltration. – Ch. 30 Runoff. – Ch. 31 Analysis and presentation of rainfall data. – Ch. 32 Unit hydrograph methods. – Ch. 33 Rainfall-runoff modelling. – Ch. 34 Flood routing. – Ch. 35 Flow through saturated porous media. – Ch. 36 Statistical methods in hydrology. – Ch. 37 Systems theory approach to hydrological modelling. – Ch. 38 Time series analysis and forecasting. – Ch. 39 Water – State of the resource. – Ch. 40 Sources and demand for water. – Ch. 41 Challenges in coping with water problems.

"This textbook combines the essentials of water science and engineering for civil engineering: fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology and water resources. It also touches on water related disasters and the role of water in sustainability. It draws out the natural connections between these themes, and their underlying foundations"-- Provided by publisher.