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Surveys the water-lifting technologies that are available and appropriate for smallholdings. This report examines the costs and general suitability of the different technologies to enable farmers and policy makers to make informed choices.

This book presents the ideas behind model design and use for a broad spectrum of hydraulic modeling methods. Detailed guidance is provided for selecting the modeling approach most likely to produce the data sought. This manual provides many different methods of hydraulic modeling from which to choose, as it covers an extensive assortment of modeling topics, technical issues, and strategies. Significant advances in modeling methods and the broadening of hydraulic issues addressed by means of hydr...

Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot...

ASCE/EWRI 45-05 provides guidelines for the design of urban stormwater systems, covering topics such as site analysis, system configuration, hydrology, hydraulic design, nonstructural considerations, structural design, and materials. ""ASCE/EWRI 46-05"" presents guidelines for the installation of urban stormwater systems and discusses subjects such as contract documents, preconstruction site inspection, construction, and inspection. ""ASCE/EWRI 47-05"" provides guidelines for the operation and m...

June 10, 2003 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (1803-1858). While best known for his research findings of Darcy's Law and the Darcy-Weisbach Equation, he was also a skilled engineer, public servant, and community leader. In celebration of the anniversary, this publication is a collection of 20 peer-reviewed contributions that address both Darcy and other pioneers in hydraulic history. Seven papers describe Darcy's achievements and legacy and include a paper...

The book describes Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Classical Thermodynamics as branches of Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics. The approach presented is markedly different from the treatment given to them in traditional text books. A Hamilton-Type Variational Principle as the proper mathematical technique for the theoretical description of the dynamic state of any fluid is formulated. The scheme is completed proposing a new group of variations regarding the evolution parameter.

This book describes how modeling fluid flow in chemical reactors may offer solutions that improve design, operation, and performance of reactors. Chemical reactors are any vessels, tubes, pipes, or tanks in which chemical reactions take place. Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering will show the reactor engineer how to define the specific roles of computational flow modeling, select appropriate tools, and apply these tools to link reactor hardware to reactor performance. Ov...

The most pertinent tsunami related issues such as water borne debris during tsunami flooding, design loads to incorporate for impact forces on coastal zone infrastructure, detection and warning are meticulously incorporated in this book.Modelling of various coastal processes have proven to be successful in the recent past, which includes extreme events such as storm surge, cyclone, etc. The possible provisions for computational/numerical tsunami modelling and real physical modelling in laborator...