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Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
Water at rest and in motion, in pipes and open channels.
Topics by level
Basics
School, diploma and first-year level: the ideas in plain words.
Intermediate
Degree and exam core (GATE, ESE level).
Advanced and Design
Professional design practice.
- Water hammer planned
- Pumps and turbines planned
- Sediment transport planned
Research
Frontier topics for researchers and postgraduates.
- Computational hydraulics planned
Codes and standards
No single design code governs this subject; see the related subjects and the codes library.
References and further reading
Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.
- P. N. Modi, S. M. Seth, Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics including Hydraulic Machines, Standard Book House, latest edition.
- V. T. Chow, Open-Channel Hydraulics, McGraw Hill, 1959.
- K. Subramanya, Flow in Open Channels, McGraw Hill Education (India), latest edition.