Fluvial
Hydraulics
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Understanding Manning's equation: the enduring workhorse of open-channel flows
How a 134-year-old empirical formula, despite its inherent flaws, remains a go-to workhorse of open-channel hydraulics.
Demise of the European summer: the challenge of unpredictable extremes
The drought-flood-drought whiplash in Europe begs the question — are we prepared for the correct extreme that's coming?
What is Fluvial Hydraulics?
Is it all math?
What's in it for me?
Fluvial Hydraulics is a working notebook on understanding rivers — What governs water flow? What models do we build to predict it? How good are these models? Some posts may lean towards the quantitative, but aim to stay readable without a hydraulics textbook open beside them.
More importantly though, here we shall aim to constantly fathom the chaotic connections among science, engineering, society and the political superstructures within which it all functions.
Fluvial Hydraulics is written for all just as Rivers belong to all.