The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow is a major new textbook for senior undergraduates and postgraduate students. Dr Chanson first introduces the basic principles of open channel flow hydraulics, namely the continuity, Bernoulli and momentum principles. Applications include short transitions (e.g. intake), hydraulic jumps and flow resistance. The key topics of sediment transport, hydraulic modelling and the design of hydraulic structures are then developed in turn. This innovative textbook contains numerous examples, including practical applications, and is fully illustrated with line drawings and photographs in colour and black and white. Exercises - located at the end of each chapter and as revision sections at the end of each part - form an integral part of the text. The book concludes with major assignments, which assimilate all the knowledge into a fully coherent whole. Solutions to exercises, together with the shareware software Hydroculv, are available from the Web at: Key Features: Ideal for Use by Students and Lecturers in Civil and Environmental Engineering Numerous Exercises and Examples, Including a Supporting Website, to Aid the Reader’s Understanding Comprehensive Coverage of the Basic Principles and the Key Application Areas of the Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow the Reader is Taken Step by Step from the Basic Principles to the More Advanced Design Calculations
Dr Hubert Chanson received a degree of 'Ingnieur Hydraulicien' from the Ecole Nationale Suprieure d'Hydraulique et de Mcanique de Grenoble (France) in 1983 and a degree of 'Ingnieur Gnie Atomique' from the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nuclaires' in 1984. He worked in industry in France as a R&D engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission from 1984 to 1986, and as a computer professional in fluid mechanics for Thomson-CSF between 1989 and 1990. From 1986 to 1988, he studied at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) as part of a PhD project.
The author has been a senior lecturer in fluid mechanics, hydraulics and environmental engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia, since 1990. His research interests include design of hydraulic structures experimental investigations of two-phase flows, water quality modelling in coastal and hydraulic structures, and environmental management and natural resources. He is the author of two books : "Hydraulic Design of Stepped Cascades, Channels, Weirs and Spillways" (Pergamon, 1995), and "Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows" (Academic Press, 1997). His publication record includes over 100 international refereed papers. The author has been active also as a consultant for both governmental agencies and private organisations.
He has been awarded four fellowships from the Australian Academy of Science. In 1995 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, Republic of China) and he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) in 1999.
Dr Chanson was the keynote lecturer at the 1998 ASME Fluids engineering Symposium on Flow Aeration and at the Workshop on Flow Characteristics around Hydraulic Structures (Nihon University, Japan 1998). He has given several short courses in Australia and overseas.
