Description
This book is published in two volumes to make it easily accessible without eliminating important information related to experiments in hydraulics. This volume covers the following topics:
窶｢ Theoretical foundations of common water-flow situations, with emphasis on open-channel and pipe flows and their complexities (sediment transport, flow through vegetation, ice-covered flows, aerated flows)
窶｢ Similitude analysis and its relationships with experimental design and data interpretation
窶｢ Criteria for designing facilities and selection of the instruments for common and complex laboratory and field experiments
窶｢ Steps for executing laboratory and field experiments in hydraulics
窶｢ Contemporary and emerging approaches for post-processing and analysis of experimental data
窶｢ Uncertainty analysis for data quality assurance and hydroinformatics systems for managing and visualizing data
Table of Contents
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
