Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering E-Book

S. David Graber

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Bring the tools of hydraulics and pneumatics to bear on key environmental challenges

Hydraulics and pneumatics are essential tools in environmental engineering. Any area of engineering which deals with harnessing, managing, and controlling fluid and flow will find hydraulics and pneumatics indispensable, and environmental engineering is no exception. These two subjects, however, are rarely integrated in standard teaching and research resources, and there exists an urgent need for a work which brings them together.

Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering meets this need with a thorough, accessible overview of this vital subject. Written for advanced environmental engineering students and assuming a sound undergraduate background in fluid mechanics, this book otherwise provides everything needed to bring hydraulic and pneumatic tools and principles to bear on environmental engineering problems. With civil and environmental engineering only becoming more essential as communities grow and the challenges of climate change mount, the next generation of engineers will be amply served by this text.

Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering readers will also find:

• An emphasis on practical applications, often under-valued in civil engineering courses
• Detailed discussion of topics including Navier-Stokes, G-Value, incompressible flow, and many more
• Diagrams and figures throughout to illustrate key points

Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in civil and environmental engineering, as well as for researchers and practicing engineers in need of a reference.

Leseprobe

Hydraulics and Pneumatics in Environmental Engineering

S. David Graber

P.E. Consulting Engineer, Stoughton, MA, USA

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About the Author

S. David Graber is a consulting engineer with over 50 years of experience. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Science from the University of Miami in Florida, and Master of Science and Professional Degree of Civil Engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has professional engineering registrations in New York and elsewhere. Recognitions include being a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a member of the Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi. His awards include the ASCE Samuel A. Greeley Award for 1969, ASCE J.C. Stevens Award for 1972, ASCE Samuel A. Greeley Award for 2005, ASCE Standards Development Council Merit Award for 2014, and the ASCE Standards Development Council Award for 2016. He is the author of over 45 journal publications and presentations. David is blessed by his lovely wife of 58 years, four sons, and five grandchildren. He is an avid reader of nonfiction and is an outdoorsman, who particularly enjoys spending summers on his family’s island camp on a remote freshwater lake in Maine.

Preface

This book is intended to fill a large gap in environmental engineering education which has become apparent to the author in his 60 years of close association with practicing environmental engineers. It is written both with the student and the practicing engineer in mind. In the current educational scheme of things, the book should find its greatest value at the graduate level. As regards mathematical background, an understanding of ordinary differential equations, partial differentiation (including chain rules), and elementary properties of vectors (including the scalar or dot product) is assumed. Some of the mathematical background could be introduced or expounded upon as part of courses utilizing this text. More sophisticated vector analysis is avoided to maximize accessibility and, in the case of the critical review of G‐value, to allow parallels to be drawn with historical developments in the environmental engineering literature. More general vector relations are noted and referenced by footnote where appropriate. A sound undergraduate fluid mechanics course has also been assumed. A student having had strong undergraduate training in fluid mechanics should find some of the material in Chapters 2–5 to be review, but should benefit from the particular perspective.

It is hoped that some environmental engineering students will be inspired to continue with further study of hydraulics, particularly in the area of the natural systems touched upon in the final chapter of this book. It is further hoped that the book will improve communication between the hydraulic and environmental engineer, not only by making the latter more aware of the methods of the former but also by making the former more aware of technical needs in the environmental engineering field. The practicing engineer should find the book valuable both as a general self‐study source and as a reference resource. For the latter purpose in particular, the author has endeavored to provide practical summary or overview sections where appropriate. Example problems and solutions are given throughout the book which are, without exception, taken from real‐life situations encountered by the author.

This book includes original work not previously reported. Since publication in the present form will largely preclude publication in professional journals, it seems appropriate that material which otherwise might have appeared in current engineering literature be listed, as follows:

G‐value

Detention basins

Generalized numerical solution and graphs for horizontal collection conduits of constant top width

Generalized solutions and graphs for horizontal, frictionless collection conduits of varying top width

The author was privileged to associate with eminent engineers of great influence early in his professional career. He enjoyed a special relation with the late Thomas R. Camp with whom he spent many hours in stimulating discussion. Camp’s youthfulness of spirit, bold willingness to risk error, and the tenacity with which he held to his convictions made a deep and lasting impression. The more cautious guidance of the late Richard L. Woodward and the sharing of his immense knowledge and resource material was inspirational and of great educational benefit to the author. Others too numerous to mention are to be thanked for their contribution to this endeavor. They include many professors and professional colleagues and, in particular, the author’s clients who have provided the practical experience necessary for this endeavor. Special thanks are due Janet H. Reardon for her excellent typing of much of this manuscript, and the reviewers selected by the publishers, who made helpful suggestions. My last, but by no means least, acknowledgment is to my wonderful wife Arlene; to our children Steven, Brian, Keven, and Allen; and our grandchildren Josephine, Keenan, Thomas Joseph (TJ), Sophia, and Maizey whose generation this book is ultimately intended to serve.

S. David Graber

Stoughton, Massachusetts

Acknowledgments

I began this book about 50 years ago, added a great deal along the way, and once retired could devote the time necessary to see it to completion. Initial inspiration for this work began through my affiliation with the late Dr. Thomas Ringgold Camp of the then engineering firm of Camp, Dresser and Mckee, with whom I was privileged to work, learn from, receive inspiration, and together publish numerous articles. I was fortunate earlier to benefit from the inspiration provided by numerous exceptional teachers and professors at various levels. My very ability to live long enough to see this work to completion is due to the expertise and care of Dr. Margarita T. Camacho, M.D. of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, who performed my heart transplant surgery with little time to spare in May 2015. My editors at Wiley, Nandhini Karuppiah and Kalli Schultea, were wonderful to work with and very supportive. For many years, I served as a member and corresponding editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental & Water Resources Institute, to which I owe thanks both for the colleagues with whom I was privileged to work and for exposing me to needs in our field which prompted numerous of my publications. My lovely wife Arlene is thanked for meticulously editing the book and suggesting many changes that greatly improved the book. And thank you to Danijel Katic of KaticCAD in Norwood, Massachusetts, for providing expert assistance in CAD drafting many of the figures that appear in the book.