S N Ghosh

Flood Control and Drainage Engineering, 3rd Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thoroughly updated, this third edition covers developments in remote sensing, information technology, and GIS technology for flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization, and flood hazard zoning. New additions cover engineering for flood control, drainage improvement, and coastal aquifer management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781138372511
• ISBN-10: 113837251X
• Artikelnr.: 55982776

Autorenporträt

The author, presently retired, served as professor and head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He also served the Calcutta Port Trust as Chief Hydraulic Engineer on deputation from IIT. Professor Ghosh is a member of several learned societies and recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship for Post Doctoral Research at Imperial College, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Third edition
Preface to the Second edition
Preface to the First edition
1. Flood problems
2. Estimation of design flood
3. Flood routing through reservoirs and channels
4. Design of spillways
5. Flood mitigation through planning of reservoir capacities and
operation of reservoirs
6. Flood mitigation through river protection and improvement works
7. Flood forecasting, warning and flood fighting
8. Economics of flood control, project
9. Design of subsurface drainage system
10. Design of surface drainage system
11. Water-logging and salinity
12. Application of Remote-sensing technology for flood control
13. Flood plain delineation and flood hazard assessment
index