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Entropy and Energy Dissipation in Water Resources

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Entropy and Energy Dissipation in Water Resources

[Book]

edited by V.P. Singh, M. Fiorentino.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

1992

(608 pages)

Water science and technology library, 9.

Section 1: Perspectives on Entropy and Energy Dissipation --; Entropy Optimization Principles and their Applications --; A Historical Perspective of Entropy Applications in Water Resources --; Force, Energy, Entropy, and Energy Dissipation Rate --; Versatile Uses of the Entropy Concept in Water Resources --; Limits in Space-Time Knowledge of Hydrological Data --; Random Walk between Order and Disorder --; Section 2: Application of Entropy in Hydrology --; On What Can be Explained by the Entropy of a Channel Network --; Transfer of Information in Monthly Rainfall Series of San Jose, California --; Application of Some Entropic Measures in Hydrologic Data Infilling Procedures --; An Investigation of the Feasibility Space of Parameter Estimation Using POME and ML with Reference to the TCEV Distribution --; Probabilistic Analysis of the Availability of a Hydrological Forecasting System (HFS) --; Section 3: Application Of Entropy In Water Resources --; Assessing the Reliability of Water Distribution Networks Using Entropy-Based Measures of Network Redundancy --; Optimizing Water Distribution Network Design Using Entropy Surrogates for Network Reliability --; The Role of the Entropy Concept in Design and Evaluation of Water Quality Monitoring Networks --; Application of the Entropy Concept in Design of Water Quality Monitoring Networks --; Maximum Entropy Techniques in Inverse and Environmental Problems --; Section 4: Application Of Entropy In Hydraulics --; Applications of Probability and Entropy Concepts in Open-Channel Hydraulics --; A New Energy-Based Approach to Local Bridge Scour --; First and Second Law Analysis of a Hydro Storage with Respect to the Environmental Impact of an Energy System --; Maximum Entropy Principle and Energy Dissipation through Permeable Breakwaters --; Section 5: Application Of Energy Principles In Hydrology --; On What is Explained by the Form of a Channel Network --; Analysis of Spatial Variability of River Network Morphology, Flow and Potential Energy --; Flow Resistance Induced by Overland Flow Morphology --; The Priming and Duration of Droughts --; Section 6: Application of Energy Principles in Hydraulics --; The Role of Energy Dissipation in Fluid Flows and River Mechanics --; Energy Loss in Dividing Flow --; Wave Type Flow at Abrupt Drops: Flow Geometry and Energy Loss --; Some Considerations on Velocity Profiles in Unsteady Pipe Flows --; Analysis of the Seepage Process in Clay Slopes Intercepted by Trench Drains --; Dynamic and Variational Approaches to the River Regime Relation --; Are Extremal Hypotheses not Consistent with Regime Alluvial Channels? --; Statistical Quantities Distribution in Turbulent Flows and the Use of the Entropy Concept --; Vortex Ring-Moving Sphere Chaotic Interaction.

This book contains a selection of papers arising from an international conference, held in Maratea (Italy), June 26-28, 1991.
It comprises six sections encompassing a range of the major aspects of entropy-based developments in water resources. Each section normally starts with an invited, state-of-the-art paper, followed by contributed papers.
Section 1 presents a discussion on the perspectives of entropy and energy dissipation. The applications of entropy in hydrology are considered in Section 2, water resources in Section 3, and hydraulics in Section 4. Sections 5 and 6 deal with the applications of energy principles in, respectively, hydrology and hydraulics.
This book will interest researchers as well as those engaged in civil engineering, agricultural engineering, environmental engineering, hydrology, water resources, earth resources, forestry, geography and climatology. Graduate students, as well as those wishing to conduct research on entropy or its applications, will find this book to be of particular significance.

Hydraulics -- Congresses.

Hydrology -- Congresses.

Water -- Thermal properties -- Congresses.

edited by V.P. Singh, M. Fiorentino.

M Fiorentino

V P Singh

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