376 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
Primarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for advanced students of civil engineering, this third edition is thoroughly revised. It accommodates recent developments in remote sensing, information technology and GIS technology. New additional material deals with problems of flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization and flood hazard zoning, and engineering... Read more
Preface to the Third edition
Preface to the Second edition
Preface to the First edition
- Flood problems
- Estimation of design flood
- Flood routing through reservoirs and channels
- Design of spillways
- Flood mitigation through planning of reservoir capacities and operation of reservoirs
- Flood mitigation through river protection and improvement works
- Flood forecasting, warning and flood fighting
- Economics of flood control, project
- Design of subsurface drainage system
- Design of surface drainage system
- Water-logging and salinity
- Application of Remote-sensing technology for flood control
- Flood plain delineation and flood hazard assessment
index
Biography
The author, presently retired, served as professor and head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He also served the Calcutta Port Trust as Chief Hydraulic Engineer on deputation from IIT.
Professor Ghosh is a member of several learned societies and recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship for Post Doctoral Research at Imperial College, London, UK.
