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Civil Engineering Hydraulics: Essential Theory with Worked Examples

R. E. Featherstone, Chandramouli Nalluri

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Properties of fluids Fluid statics Fluid flow concepts and measurements Flow of incompressible fluids in pipelines Pipe network analysis Pump-pipeline system analysis and design Boundary layers on flat plates and in ducts Steady flow in open channels Dimensional analysis, similitude and hydraulic models Ideal liquid flow and curvilinear flow Gradually varied unsteady flow from reservoirs Mass oscillations and pressure transients in pipelines Unsteady flow in channels Uniform flow in loose-boundary channels Basic hydraulic structures Answers Conversion table (metric to imperial units).

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Key concepts: Hydraulics, Curvilinear coordinates, Flow (mathematics), Pipeline transport, Mechanics, Potential flow, Open-channel flow, Fluid dynamics