Engineering Hydrology
This is the text book for Hydrology for
undergraduate students of civil and Agricultural Engineering written in a
simple and lucid style focuses on Indian scenario of water resources with
orientation to tropical climate. The author of this book is K. Subramanya who is retired professor of
civil engineering at Indian institute of technology, Kanpur. The publisher of
this book is Tata Me Graw Hill Education private limited, New Delhi.
Comprehensive coverage and clear explanation make
the book very student friendly. This book consists of various feature and
characteristics. It emphasis on current water resources scenario in India with
authentic and updated statistical data. It consists of latest technologies and
applications like GPS, GIS and remote sensing in various aspects of applied
hydrology. This book has new chapters on erosion and reservoir sedimentation. It
is the comprehensive coverage with emphasis on applicability of concepts
presented to field situations relevant to Indian condition.
This book consists of ten chapter. In each chapter
we can find references, revision question, problem, objective question. From
the first chapter we can get information about the hydrological cycle, water
budget equation. History of hydrology and the application in engineering field.
Similarly in second chapter we can know about introduction of precipitation,
form of precipitation, measurement of precipitation, rain gauge network, preparation
and presentation of rainfall data, mean precipitation over an area,
depth area duration relationship and maximum intensity duration frequency
relationship soon like wise in third chapter we can know about evaporation, its
process and its estimation, transpiration, evapo transpiration, measure of
evapo transpiration, infiltration capacity and measurement of infiltration,
classification of infiltration capacities. In chapter four we can learn about
measurement of stage, velocity, area velocity method, electromagnetic methods,
stage discharge relationship.
Similarly in fifth chapter we can know about
hydrograph, runoff characteristics of stream, volume, flow duration curve, flow
mass curve, droughts.
Chapter six is prepared with the view to produce
knowledge about factor affecting flood hydrograph, base flow separation,
effective rainfall, unit hydrograph, derivation, uses and limits of unit
hydrograph.
We can learn about flood and its design, risk
reliability and safety factor and methods like rational, Gumbel’s etc in
chapter seven. From chapter eight, we can learn about hydrological storage
routing, hydrological channel routing, and hydraulic method of flood routing
and flood control.
Chapter nine is placed with the aim to provide
knowledge about ground water and the last but not the least chapter, chapter
ten gives us information about process and estimation of erosion, channel
erosion, movement of sediment yield from water shed, life of reservoir and
soon. At the end of book it consists of useful websites, aberration, conversion
factor , answers to objective question and answers to problem. In theme, this
book is very beneficial and helpful for engineering students.
Book review is written by Lochan Poudel
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