Simple Hydraulics

Water in a pipe does not choose its path, and water in a channel does not choose its depth. The system decides both, and the answer comes from an accounting you can write down, check, and defend.

This book builds that accounting one closure at a time: pipes, networks, pumps and surges, then open channels, where the depth is the unknown. It covers pipe resistance in series and parallel paths and in networks; pumps, system curves and operating points; water hammer, with surge bounds and closure times; specific energy and critical, uniform and varied flow; and the hydraulic jump and where it stands. Every method says where it stops being true.

For students, engineers and anyone who would rather understand a result than recognise one.