State-of-the-Art Review of Computing Essentials for Commercial Pipeline System Hydraulic Design

Effective instructions in hydraulic design and piping system analysis have constituted a subject of several recent publications. The main objective of this authored-book is to provide a state-of-the art review of recent developments on commercial pipeline flow hydraulics and alternative hydraulic design concepts. For this purpose, the book presents simple, but sufficiently accurate mathematical equations, which can be applied directly without needing any numerical technique to achieve whole hydraulic computations. The book covers engineering applications of civil, hydraulic, machine and environment engineering areas such as, fire protection, heating pipelines, assessment for leaky pipes in branched networks of water transmission and distribution systems, multi-port diffuser manifolds for sea outfalls, oil, petrol or gas transport pipelines or industrial piping systems. The field of application of the book is efficient for pipeline flow hydraulics applications. The derivative procedure provided in the book give an opportunity the designers to better understand the basic hydraulic principles of commercial pipeline flow, and demonstrate their applicability and efficiency on design problems of any types of commercial pipelines, and covering various design configurations. The authored-book is also suitable as a useful reference for senior-level undergraduate and graduate students, in civil, hydraulics and environmental engineering, practicing engineers and researchers. The students are expected to have had a fluid mechanics and hydraulics courses before studying this book.