Hydraulics (National High Vocational and Technical Water Conservancy and Hydropower Excellent Planning Textbook)

Author: Liu Chunya, Xiong Yifu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book is written as a teaching material for the Water Conservancy and Hydropower Construction and Water Conservancy Engineering programs in higher vocational and technical schools. The entire book is divided into thirteen chapters, including Introduction, Hydrostatics, Basic Principles of Steady Flow, Flow Patterns and Head Losses, Pipe Flow, Steady Uniform Flow in Open Channels, Steady Non-uniform Flow in Open Channels, Gate Outflow and Weir Flow, Flow Connection and Energy Dissipation in Downstream of Water Release Structures, Seepage Flow, Introduction to High-Speed Flow, Basics of Hydraulic Model Testing, and the Application of Microsoft Excel in Hydraulic Calculations. Each chapter includes examples, exercises, and commonly used charts and tables. This book is suitable for teaching in similar programs at ordinary higher vocational colleges and can also be referenced by water conservancy and hydropower engineering technicians.