Applied Hydraulic Transients

Unlike the traditional monograph based on previously published material, this book draws on theoretical and applied results obtained by the author over the past 20 years to explore problems of hydraulic computation in the design of hydroelectric power plants and pumping stations. The book covers transient hydraulic computation for hydroelectric plants and pumping stations using numerical methods, the protection of pumping stations against waterhammer, mass oscillation in hydraulic surge systems, and computation of unsteady motions in the intermediate domain between rapid and slow motions.