Description

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Transitions are provided in hydraulic structures for economy and efficiency. This book covers all types of flow transitions: sub-critical to sub-critical, sub-critical to super critical, super-critical to sub-critical with hydraulic jump, and super-critical to super-critical transitions. It begins with an introduction followed by characteristics of flow in different types of transitions and procedures for hydraulic design of transitions in different structures. Different types of appurtenances used to control flow separation and ensure uniform flow at exit of transition and diffusers are included. Examples of hydraulic design of a few typical hydraulic structures are given as well.

About the Author

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Professor S.K. Mazumder was born in 1938. He completed PhD from IIT, Kharagpur. He is Fellow of The Institution Of Engineers (India) IE(I), Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH), Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS), and Central Board of Irrigation and Power (CBIP) and a member of International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Institute of Public Health Engineers, India (IPHE), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI), and Consultancy Development Center (CDC). He has 58 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy in hydraulics and water resources engineering. He was a principal investigator of several sponsored research schemes. He guided 30 theses at post- graduate level and 10 projects at undergraduate level. He published 193 technical papers in national and international journals and conferences and wrote one book published by Tata McGraw Hill Ltd. New Delhi and contributed chapter in two books published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, London and Springer, Germany. He is editor-in-chief of proceedings of a national conference. He received several awards for his papers from IE(I) and IRC.He was Dean, Faculty of Technology, Delhi University, and Emeritus Fellow with AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education). He was a visiting professor at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnic Federal Lausanne), Switzerland. He got lifetime achievement award from the Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH) for his contribution in hydraulics and water resources engineering.