Open channel flow

作者：F. M. Henderson · 发表于：Macmillan eBooks · 年份：1966 · 被引用次数：2089 · 研究领域：Hydraulic flow and structures

PrefaceAlthough this book was originally conceived as a text for use by the civilnengineering student in advanced courses either in his senior year or at graduatenlevel, it is also designed to have some appeal to the practicing engineer.Open channel flow, like any topic of engineering interest, is defined andnclassified partly by its possession of certain characteristic applications andnpartly by the principles that are invoked to deal with them. This particularnsubject is so rich in the variety and interest of its practical problems that anyntextbook on the subject is in danger of becoming a mere catalogue of applicationsnand routine techniques devised for dealing with them. But it has to benremembered that mastery of this subject, as of any other, demands a grasp ofbasic principles no less than a facility in routine operations. The practicing nengineer is reminded of this fact whenever he turns from the familiar numericsnof backwater curves and flood-routing procedures to some unusual transitionnproblem whose solution requires a good grasp of fundamentals.The importance of basic principles is recognized in this text in two ways :nfirst, by devoting the opening chapters to a fairly leisurely discussion of introductorynprinciples, including a recapitulation of the underlying argumentsnderived from the parent subject of fluid mechanics; and second, by takingnevery opportunity in the later chapters to refer back to this earlier materialnin order to clarify particular applicatio...