Experimental Hydraulics: Methods, Instrumentation, Data Processing and Management : Volume II: Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques

A practical guide for the design of laboratory and field experiments, selection of appropriate instrumentation and experimental methodologies, as well as for conducting and analyzing experimental studies.  Providing an end-to-end guidance to support experimentalists in the design and collection of the targeted data with prescribed accuracy. Currently, many studies are carried out in laboratories under less than ideal conditions that significantly influence the experimental outcomes (e.g., secondary currents, flume aspect ratio and development length, etc) and with instruments that are not always well tunned to the measurement environment (i.e., adequate temporal and spatial resolution for the flow under investigation). These limitations need to be understood and counteracted with appropriate measures. Practical information on many topics of experimentation presently can only be found in scientific papers or specialized monographs on laboratory practice.

This is the second volume of a two-volume guide to designing, conducting and interpreting laboratory and field experiments in a broad range of topics associated with hydraulic engineering. Specific guidance is provided on methods and instruments currently used in experimental hydraulics, with emphasis on new and emerging measurement technologies and methods of analysis. Additionally, this book offers a concise outline of essential background theory, underscoring the intrinsic connection between theory and experiments. This book is much needed, as experimental hydraulicians have had to refer to guidance scattered in scientific papers or specialized monographs on essential aspects of laboratory and fieldwork practice.
The book is the result of the first substantial effort in the community of hydraulic engineering to describe in one place all the components of experimental hydraulics. Included is the work of a team of more than 45 professional experimentalists, who explore innovative approaches to the vast array of experiments of differing complexity encountered by today’s hydraulic engineer, from laboratory to field, from simple but well-conceived to complex and well-instrumented. The style of this book is intentionally succinct, making frequent use of convenient summaries, tables and examples to present information. All researchers, practitioners, and students conducting or evaluating experiments in hydraulics will find this book useful.