"Practical Channel Hydraulics: Roughness, Conveyance and Afflux" by Donald W. Knight, et al.

This is a technical reference guide and instruction text for the estimation of flood and drainage water levels in rivers, waterways and drainage channels. The book is the first reference guide that focuses in detail on estimating roughness, conveyance and afflux in fluvial hydraulics.

The book is written as a user’s manual for the openly available innovative Conveyance and Afflux Estimation System (CES-AES) software, with which water levels, flows and velocities in channels can be calculated.
Approaches and solutions are focused on addressing environmental, flood risk and land drainage objectives.
With its universal approach and the application of metric units, the book serves an international audience of consultants and engineers dealing with river modelling, flood risk assessment, maintenance of watercourses and the design of drainage systems.
Suited as course material for training graduate Master’s students in civil and environmental engineering or geomorphology who focus on river and flood engineering, as well as for professional training in flood risk management issues, open channel flow hydraulics and modelling.

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notation
AcronymsAE
Glossary of terms
1 Introduction
2 Practical and theoretical issues in channel hydraulics
3 Understanding roughness, conveyance and afflux
4 Practical issues - roughness, conveyance and afflux
5 Further issues on flows in rivers
6 Concluding remarks
Appendix 1: The finite element approximations for the CES equations
Appendix 2: Summary of hydraulic equations used in the AES
Appendix 3: Cross-section survey data
References
Author index
Subject index