Elementary Engineering Hydrology
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Author(s):
Author:
M. J. Deodhar
- ISBN:9788131708057
- 10 Digit ISBN:8131708055
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Price:Rs. 905.00
- Pages:408
- Imprint:Pearson Education
- Binding:Paperback
- Status:Available
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Elementary Engineering Hydrology is a textbook for undergraduate and diploma students of civil engineering. It provides a comprehensive coverage of all the essential aspects of hydrology. To make it easy for students to grasp the concepts, all important topics have been divided into sub-topics, lending clarity to the subject matter. The text is interspersed with numerous figures and tables, and a wide range of solved problems to illustrate the underlying concepts and techniques effectively. Simple and comprehensible for beginners in the course, this book also contains a host of additional information, by way of appendices, including India's National Water Policy, water resources of India and also a guide to using survey maps. These features of the book will make it an invaluable reference book for practicing engineers as well.
Table of Content
- Introduction
- Hydrometeorology
- Evaporation and Transpiration
- Precipitation
- Infiltration
- Hydrograph
- Runoff
- Floods
- Discharge Measurement
- Flood Routing
- Groundwater
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Salient Features
- Chapter organization based on the progression of the stages of the hydrologic cycle
- Inclusion of recent developments in the field of discharge measurement of high velocity fluids, and rainfall simulation to measure the infiltration rate
- Separate chapters devoted to evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, infiltration, discharge measurement, etc.
- An excellent selection of a wide range of solved problems, interspersed in the text as well as at the end of each chapter
- Review questions, objective-type questions and numerous practice problems to aid self-study
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