Engineering Technology

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-81-203-5243-8
Verlag: Eurospan

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

This lucidly-written book, with its diagrammatic representation and practical examples, presents a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of engineering hydrology in the areas of elements of hydrological cycle, abstraction losses, streamflow measurement, runoff, hydrology statistics, flood frequency analysis and groundwater flow.

Throughout the book, the text emphasises problem-solving in which students are encouraged to apply their conceptual understanding in order to solve practical problems.

This book is primarily intended for the undergraduate students of civil engineering and agricultural engineering.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goyal, Manish Kumar

Über Autor(innen)

Manish Kumar Goyal, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Earlier, he worked at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. Dr. Goyal is actively involved in teaching and research in different areas such as water resources modelling, snowmelt hydrology, climate change, and extreme events analysis and soil carbon sequestration. He has authored more than 65 technical publications, including four chapters in books, 40 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal articles and 21 conference publications. He is also the author of book Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines published by PHI Learning. Recently, he has been awarded the Inspire Faculty Fellowship Award and the Erasmus Mundus Interweave Award. Earlier, he has been offered the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program to pursue research at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and has won the Young Scientist Award from the APEC Climate Centre, Busan, Republic of Korea. He has also been recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Award to pursue research at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Goyal is the member of editorial board of about half a dozen journals. He has been peer reviewer for more than 30 international journals, including Journal of Hydrology and International Journal of Climatology.