TY - BOOK AU - Chow,Ven Te TI - Open-channel hydraulics / SN - 9781932846188 U1 - 627. 22 PY - 1959/// CY - Caldwell, New Jersey : PB - The Blackburn Press, KW - Armarc KW - CANALES [INGENIERIA HIDRAULICA] KW - HIDRAULICA KW - ABASTECIMIENTO DE AGUA KW - INGENIERIA HIDRAULICA N1 - Part I. Basic principles. 1. Open-channel flow and its classifications. 2. Open channels and their properties. 3. Energy and momentum principles. 4. Critical flow: its computation and applications. Part II. Uniform flow. 5. Development of uniform flow and its formulas. 6. Computation of uniform flow. 7. Design of channels for uniform flow. A. Nonerodible channels. B. Erodible channels which scour but do not silt. C. Grassed channels. 8. Theoretical concepts of boundary layer, surface roughness, velocity distribution, and instability of uniform flow. Part III. Gradually varied flow. 9. Theory and analysis. 10. Methods of computation. 11. Practical problems. 12. Spatially varied flow. Part IV. Rapidly varied flow. 13. Introduction. 14. Flow over spillways. 15. Hydraulics Jump and its use as energy dissipator. 16. Flow in channels of nonlinear alignment. 17. Flow through nonprismatic channel sections. Part V. Unsteady flow. 18. Gradually varied unsteady flow. 19. Rapidly varied unsteady flow. 20. Flood routing.; Civil ER -