1st Edition

Experimental Hydraulics: Methods, Instrumentation, Data Processing and Management Volume I: Fundamentals and Methods

494 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

This is the first volume of a two-volume guide to designing, conducting and interpreting laboratory and field experiments in a broad range of topics associated with hydraulic engineering. Specific guidance is provided on methods and instruments currently used in experimental hydraulics, with emphasis on new and emerging measurement technologies and methods of analysis. Additionally, this book... Read more

Introduction



Role of experiments in complementing analytical approaches



Open-channel flow types and characteristics





Selection of instruments and facilities (lab and field)



Flow visualization



Modern instrumentation for hydraulic experiments (lab& field)



Velocity



Bathymetry and morphology



Discharge



Sediment transport



Auxiliary hydrodynamic variables



Environmental Flows



Data acquisition



Data processing and mining



Uncertainty analysis



Data models

Biography

Marian Muste, Dennis A. Lyn, David Admiraal, Robert Ettema, Vladimir Nikora, Marcelo H. Garcia