424 Pages
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CRC Press
424 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Stepped channel designs have been used for more than 3,500 years. A significant number of dams were built with overflow stepped spillways during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before the design technique became outdated with the progresses in hydraulic jump stilling basin design. Recent advances in technology (e.g. RCC, polymer-coated gabion wire) have triggered a regain in interest... Read more
PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION: BASIC CONCEPTS IN STEPPED CHUTE HYDRAULICS 2. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF STEPPED SPILLWAYS,CHANNELS AND CASCADES: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 20TH CENTURY 3 HYDRAULICS OF NAPPE FLOW REGIME 4 THE TRANSITION FLOW REGIME 5 HYDRAULICS OF SKIMMING FLOWS 6 MASS TRANSFER ON STEPPED CASCADES AERATION, DEAERATION, OXYGENATION, STRIPPING, DENITRIFICATION 7 DESIGN OF STEPPED CHANNELS, CHUTES AND SPILLWAYS 8 ACCIDENTS AND FAILURES: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE 9 WAVE PHENOMENA AND INSTABILITIES IN STEPPED CHUTE FLOWS 10 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS APPENDICES.
Biography
Hubert Chanson, Reader in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
