Rajesh Srivastava is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, formerly known as the University of Roorkee, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, USA. He has also served as a research scientist at Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Dr. Srivastava has published more than 70 papers in national and international journals as well as conference proceedings. He was awarded the GM Nawathe award for the best paper in the National Conference HYDRO both in 2005 and 2006. He was also awarded the best paper award in the APD conference of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research in 2006.

Beginning with an introductory chapter that classifies the flow into various categories, the book describes uniform flow and rapid varied flow in great detail. The subsequent chapters provide a comprehensive coverage of channel transitions, spatially varied flow and unsteady flow.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Uniform flow


• 3: Nonuniform flow: gradually varied


• 4: Nonuniform flow: rapidly varied


• 5: Channel Transitions


• 6: Spatially varied flow


• 7: Unsteady flow


• 8: Flow in mobile bed channels


• 9: Pollutant transport in open channels