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Prepared by the Task Committee on Inland Navigation: Environmental Sustainability of the Waterways Committee of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) of ASCE

Inland Navigation: Environmental Sustainability provides the current state of ...

Water Engineering with the Spreadsheet: A Workbook for Water Resources Calculations Using Excel presents more than 90 problems, from easy to difficult, in the areas of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, and stormwater management. The accompanying ...

Prepared by the Task Committee on Hydraulics of Wells of the Groundwater Hydrology Technical Committee of the Groundwater Council and Watershed Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

Entropy Theory in Hydraulic Engineering: An Introduction is the first book to explain the basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydraulic perspective and demonstrate the theory's application in solving practical engineering problems. In the hydraulic ...

Rivers have always shaped the development of human society, their flows of water and sediment influencing food production, transportation, industrial activity, and power generation. Extreme flows that cause flood and drought, erosion, and sedimentation ...

Prepared by the Task Committee on Pipelines for Water Conveyance and Drainage of the Irrigation Delivery and Drainage Systems Committee of the Irrigation and Drainage Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of ...

Sponsored by the Task Committee on Sediment Dynamics Post-Dam Removal of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

Manual of Practice 122 provides guidance, documentation, and field results for the ...

Submerged vanes are an unobtrusive and cost-effective way for water engineers to address many problems associated with sedimentation and river training. A relatively new technology, submerged vanes are a low-impact method for reducing erosion and ...

Prepared by the Curve Number Hydrology Task Committee of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

This volume investigates the origin, development, role, application, and current status of the curve number method for estimating the runoff ...

Prepared by the Task Committee of the Waterways and Navigation Engineering Committee of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE.

Navigation Engineering Practice and Ethical Standards presents ...

Prepared by the ASCE Task Committee to Expand and Update Manual 54 of the Sedimentation Committee of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, ...

When it comes to water and wastewater treatment facilities, environmental engineers quickly discover that knowledge of chemical, physical, and biological processes is not enough to ensure a workable design and trouble-free operation. The success of a ...

Prepared by a Joint Task Force of the Environment and Water Resources Institute and the Committee on Pipeline Planning of the Pipeline Division of ASCE and the Collection Systems Subcommittee of the Technical ...

Prepared by the Task Committee for the Preparation of the Manual on Sedimentation of the Sedimentation Committee of the Hydraulic Division of ASCE.

Sedimentation Engineering (Manual 54) is an excellent text for ...

Hydraulic Structures is an introduction to the field of probability theory and its applications in engineering. This book provides an overview of probabilistic methods at an introductory level, including the probability of sets, arithmetic operations with ...

Water Resource Engineering presents practical methods to solve problems commonly encountered by practicing water resources engineers in day-to-day work in the fields of hydrology, hydraulics, groundwater, hydraulic designs, hydropower, environmental ...

This comprehensive handbook on the hydraulic design of labyrinth spillways—from theory to current practice—presents a state-of-the-art method for the effective design of labyrinth weirs. The book provides a fundamental understanding of the theory of ...

This book describes the latest methods and practices in the field of subsurface drainage for slope stability. Groundwater pressure significantly affects slope stability; general principles of reducing pressure by ...

Prepared by the Task Committee on Hydraulic Modeling of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.

Hydraulic Modeling presents the ideas behind model design and use for a broad spectrum of ...

Ning Chien and Zhaohui Wan provide comprehensive coverage of the mechanics of sediment transport, from the origin and formation of sediment to its properties in pipelines. First published in 1983 by Science Press ...