Hydropower engineering
Dr. Gulliver feels a text has been needed for 20 years to cover all engineering aspects of hydropower. He feels this book fills the void and provides a valuable service - despite some notable shortcomings, which he points out. He notes the book is organized in a logical manner and emphasizes water-flow aspects, with sections on hydraulics, hydrologic analysis, pressure surges, and turbine similarity, selection, and setting. Dr. Gulliver agrees that water-flow aspects are the most unique to hydropower development, but feels the wide range of subjects is covered too briefly. He feels that the primary value of the book is as a readable, complete introduction to hydropower engineering for engineers and planners unfamiliar with the field - and fully recommends the book for this purpose. However, for practicing hydropower engineers, he lists 15 references at the end of the review, which he feels should be used to supplement.
- OSTI ID:
- 6379472
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by John S. Fulliver in Alternative Sources of Energy, Vol. 65, Jan-Feb 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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