Designed primarily as a textbook for the undergraduate students of civil and agricultural engineering, this comprehensive and well-written text covers irrigation system and hydroelectric power development in lucid language. The text is organized in two parts.
Part I (Irrigation Engineering) deals with the methods of water distribution to crops, water requirement of crops, soil-water relationship, well irrigation and hydraulics of well, canal irrigation and different theories of irrigation canal design.
Part II (Water Power Engineering) offers the procedures of harnessing the hydropotential of river valleys to produce electricity. It also discusses different types of dams, surge tanks, turbines, draft tubes, power houses and their components.
The text emphasizes on the solutions of unsteady equations of surge tank and pipe carrying water to power house under water hammer situation. It also includes computer programs for the numerical solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations.
KEY FEATURES :
Provides worked out examples and problems (in SI units).
Presents all possible methods of design including Ranga-Raju-Misri’s new approach of canal design.
Gives numerous illustrations to reinforce the understanding of the subject.
Besides undergraduate students, this book will also be of immense use to the postgraduate students of water resources engineering.About the Author
MADAN MOHAN DAS, MS (Cornell University, USA), PhD (University of Strathclyde, UK), has been Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. An Emeritus Fellow of AICTE, Director of Technical Education, Government of Assam and a Telford Premium, 1981, winner jointly with Late Emeritus Professor D.I.H. Barr of University of Strathclyde for one of their research papers by the Council of Institute Civil Engineers (ICE), London, he has more than four decades of teaching experience and three decades of research experience. Dr. Das is the author of nine books, all published by PHI Learning. He has published/presented more than 63 research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His research interest includes hydrodynamics, free surface flow, irrigation, water power engineering and hydrology.
|MIMI DAS SAIKIA, PhD (IIT Guwahati), is a Professor, Civil Engineering, Assam Down Town University, Guwahati. She has been a Lecturer with the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, an Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Royal School of Engineering and Technology (RSET), Guwahati and Professor, Regional Institute of Science and Technology (RIST), Meghalaya. With more than 15 years of experience in teaching and research, she has published/presented more than twenty papers in different international and national journals and conferences. Her research interests include pipe friction, open channel flow and dam-break flood analysis. Dr. Mimi Das Saikia has authored and co-authored seven books, all published by PHI Learning.
