Xavier Litrico, Vincent Fromion, "Modeling and Control of Hydrosystems"
Xavier Litrico, Vincent Fromion, "Modeling and Control of Hydrosystems"
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1848826230 | 409 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Since antiquity, humanity has used engineering techniques to manage the transport and distribution of its most important resource – fresh water. Population growth and climate change are making the good management of water resources ever more essential and this book focuses on advanced methods for the control of water flow in open-channel systems.
Open-channel hydraulics are described by hyperbolic equations, derived from laws of conservation of mass and momentum, called Saint-Venant equations. In conjunction with hydraulic structure equations these are used to represent the dynamic behavior of water flowing in rivers, irrigation canals, transportation waterways and sewers. A lot of water is wasted because of poor management of such systems and automatic control has long been identified as a possible way to improve their operational management.