River Mechanics ( Cambridge University Press )

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Preface
Rivers have fascinated humanity for centuries. Most prosperous cities around
the world have been founded along rivers. Today, river engineers are still designing structures to draw benefits from the fluvial system for developing societies.
It is clear that river engineering is not based solely on a simple understanding of local hydrodynamic forces, but also on an encompassing knowledge
of the watershed that supplies water and sediment to dynamic river systems.
Expertise in river mechanics combines knowledge of watershed climatology,
geomorphology, and hydrology, with a deep understanding of hydrodynamic
forces governing the motion of water and sediment in complex river systems.
State-of-the-art teaching of river mechanics clearly requires study material that
emphasizes both theoretical concepts and practical engineering technology.
Ideally, scientists should develop new concepts that may be applicable to engineering design, and practitioners should understand why certain structures
work and why others fail.
This textbook has been prepared for engineers and scientists seeking broadbased technical expertise in river mechanics. It has been specifically designed
for graduate students, for scholars actively pursuing scientific research, and for
practitioners keeping up with developments in river mechanics. The prerequisites simply include basic knowledge of undergraduate fluid mechanics and
partial differential equations. The textbook Erosion and Sedimentation, by the
same author and Cambridge University Press, serves as prerequisite material
for the graduate course on river mechanics taught at Colorado State University.
Rather than a voluminous encyclopedia, this textbook scrutinizes a selected
number of methods to meet pedagogical objectives underlining both theory and
engineering applications. This text has been designed to be covered within a
regular 45-lecture-hour graduate-level course.
The chapters of this book contain, besides theory and lecture material, various exercises, general problems, data sets, computer problems, examples, and
case studies. They illustrate specific aspects of the profession from theoretical
derivations through exercises, to practical solutions to real problems through

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