Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality by A Osman Akan

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Gives a practical introduction on the challenges of controlling and managing the water resources used by and affected by cities and urbanized communities. This book offers an integrated engineering approach, covering the spectrum of urban watershed management, urban hydraulic systems, and overall storm water management.

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Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality by A Osman Akan

Gives a practical introduction on the challenges of controlling and managing the water resources used by and affected by cities and urbanized communities. This book offers an integrated engineering approach, covering the spectrum of urban watershed management, urban hydraulic systems, and overall storm water management.

A. OSMAN AKAN, PhD, PE, is Professor and current Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has more than thirty years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in the general field of water resources engineering. His publication record includes Urban Stormwater Hydrology (Wiley), several chapters in design handbooks, and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

ROBERT J. HOUGHTALEN, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. During his thirty years of experience in water resources, his publishing credits include Fundamentals of Hydraulic Engineering Systems, Third Edition (with Ned H. C. Hwang) and the Federal Highway Administration’s Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, Second Edition (HDS 5) (with Jerome M. Normann and William J. Johnston). For more than fifteen years, he has taught the EPA-SWMM model and the Corps of Engineers’ HEC-HMS model in continuing education classes for ASCE.

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ISBN 13 9780471431589
ISBN 10 0471431583
Title Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality
Author A Osman Akan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published 2003-09-05
Number of pages 392
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.