APPLIED HYDRAULIC TRASIENTS - FOR HYDROPOWER PLANTS AND PUMPING STATIONS

The book treats the problem of transient hydraulic computation, for hydroelectric plants and pumping stations, especially by numerical methods and consists of the following chapters: The waterhammer phenomenon in hydraulic systems under pressure; Experimental results concerning the waterhammer; Protection of pumping stations against waterhammer; Hydraulic resonance in hydroelectric power plant and pumping stations; Mass oscillation in hydraulic surge systems; Hydraulic stability of systems endowed with surge tanks; Experimental results in the study of mass oscillations; Hydroelectric power plants and pumping stations designed in complex hydraulic schemes and Computation of unsteady motions in the intermediate domain between rapid and slow motions.
This book is not a standard monograph based on previously published material. It is primarily grounded on the theoretical and applied results obtained by authors during more than 20 years of practice. It treats problems of hydraulic computation they encountered in the design of a significant number of hydroelectric power plants and pumping stations in Romania which are in operation.