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Selected Bibliography of Hydraulic and Hydrologic Subjects

River Hydraulics Publications

Author Publication Year Document Title Technical
Subcategory
Publication Information Available Website Link (If Applicable)
Zevenbergen, L.W., Arneson, L.A., Hunt, J.H., and Miller, A.C. 2012 Hydraulics Design of Safe Bridges, Hydraulic Design Series No. 7 Open Channel Hydraulics Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC 20590
Schall, J.D., Richardson, E.V., and Morris, J.L. 2008 Introduction to Highway Hydraulics, Hydraulic Design Series No. 4, Fourth Edition Open Channel Hydraulics Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC 20590
Albertson, M.L., et al. 1960 Fluid Mechanics for Engineers Open Channel Hydraulics Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Arcement, C.J. Jr., and Schneider, V.R. 1984 Guide for Selecting Manning's Roughness Coefficients for Natural Channels and Flood Plains Open Channel Hydraulics Publication No. FHWA-TS-84-204, NTIS No. PB 84 242 585, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Federal Highway Administration
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1962 Nomenclature for Hydraulics, Manual on Engineering Practice No. 43 Open Channel Hydraulics 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
Barnes H.H. Jr. 1967 Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels, Geological Survey WSP 1849 Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC 20402
Behlke, C.E., and Pritchett, H.D. 1966 The Design of Supercritical Flow Channel Junctions, Highway Research Record No. 123 Open Channel Hydraulics Highway Drainage and Scour Studies, Highway Research Board, Washington, DC, p. 17-35
Bradley, J.N. 1978 Hydraulics of Bridge Waterways, Hydraulic Design Series No. 1, Second Edition Open Channel Hydraulics Federal Highway Administration, Hydraulics Branch, HNG-31, Washington, DC 20590 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/pubs/hds1.pdf
Brater, E.F., and King, H.W. 1976 Handbook of Hydraulics, Sixth Edition Open Channel Hydraulics McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Brunner, G.W., Warner, J.C., Wolfe, B.C., Piper, S.S., and Marston, L. 2018 HEC-RAS, River Analysis System Applications Guide Open Channel Hydraulics Report No. CPD-70, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Brunner, G.W. 2016 HEC-RAS, River Analysis System Hydraulic Reference Manual, Version 5.0 Open Channel Hydraulics Report No. CPD-69, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation 1974 Design of Small Canal Structures Open Channel Hydraulics Water Resources Technical Publication, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC 20402, or Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
Bureau of Reclamation 1987 Design of Small Dams, Third Edition Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC 20402  
Burnham, M., and Davis, D.W. 1986 Accuracy of Computed Water Surface Profiles, Research Document No. 26 Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Chaudhry, M.H. 2008 Open-Channel Flow, Second Edition Bridge Hydraulics Springer Science and Business Media, New York, NY
Chow, V.T. 1959 Open Channel Hydraulics Open Channel Hydraulics McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1981 HEC-2 Water Surface Profiles Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Army, Hydrologic Engineering Center, 609 Second Street, Davis, CA 95616
Cowan, W.L. 1956 Estimating Hydraulic Roughness Coefficients Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Geological Survey, Agricultural Engineering, V. 37, No. 7, p. 473-475
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 2000 Determining Flood Hazards on Alluvial Fans Open Channel Hydraulics
Federal Highway Administration 1961 Design Charts for Open-Channel Flow, Hydraulic Design Series No. 3 Open Channel Hydraulics Federal Highway Administration, Hydraulics Branch, HNG-31, Washington, DC 20590
Fasken, G.B. 1963 Guide for Selecting Roughness Coefficient Open Channel Hydraulics Soil Conservation Service, currently Natural Resources Conservation Service
Gosselin, M., Sheppard, D.M., and McLemore, S. 2006 Criteria for Selecting Hydraulic Models Open Channel Hydraulics Web-Only Document 106, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Transportation Research Board
Henderson, F.M. 1966 Open Channel Flow Open Channel Hydraulics MacMillan Publishing Company, 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10222
Hicks, D.M., and Mason, P.D. 1991 Roughness Characteristics of New Zealand Rivers, New Zealand Water Resources Survey Open Channel Hydraulics
Jarrett, R.D. 1984 Hydraulics of High-Gradient Streams Open Channel Hydraulics Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 110, No. 11
Leliavsky, S. 1955 An Introduction to Fluvial Hydraulics Open Channel Hydraulics Constable and Co., Ltd., London
Manning, R. 1889 On the Flow of Water in Open Channels and Pipes Open Channel Hydraulics Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland
Morris, H.M., and Wiggert, J.M. 1972 Applied Hydraulics in Engineering, Second Edition Open Channel Hydraulics John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Munson, B.R., Young, D.F., Okiishi, T.H., and Huebsch, W.W. 2010 Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics Open Channel Hydraulics John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
National Research Council (NRC) 1996 Alluvial Fan Flooding Open Channel Hydraulics National Academies Press, Washington, DC
National Research Council (NRC) 2009 Mapping the Zone, Improving Flood Map Accuracy Open Channel Hydraulics The National Academies Press, Washington, DC
Rouse, H. 1950 Engineering Hydraulics Open Channel Hydraulics John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Rouse, H. 1978 Elementary Mechanics of Fluids Open Channel Hydraulics Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014
Rouse, H. 1937 Modern Conceptions of the Mechanics of Fluid Turbulence Open Channel Hydraulics Transactions, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 102, Reston, VA
Schumm, S.A., and Lagasse, P.F. 1998 Alluvial Fan Dynamics - Hazards to Highways Open Channel Hydraulics ASCE Water Resources Engineering 98, Proceedings, International Water Resources Engineering Conference, Memphis, TN
U.S. Geological Survey 1976 Computer Applications for Step-Backwater and Floodway Analysis Open Channel Hydraulics U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 76-499, 103 pp.
Vennard, J.K. 1975 Elementary Fluid Mechanics, Fifth Edition Open Channel Hydraulics John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Robinson, D., Zundel, A., Kramer, C., Nelson, R., DeRosset, W., Hunt, J., et al. 2019 Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling for Highways in the River Environment 2D and 3D Hydraulics Modeling Federal Highway Administration, Austin, TX 78701
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 2000 Determining Flood Hazards on Alluvial Fans 2D and 3D Hydraulics Modeling
U.S. Geological Survey 1958 Selected Topics of Fluid Mechanics 2D and 3D Hydraulics Modeling WSP 1369-A, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC 20402
Kramer, C. 2021 Benchmarking of SRH-2D 2D and 3D Hydraulics Modeling Federal Highway Administration, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Laboratory, 6300 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101
Rouse H., et al.. 1976 Advanced Mechanics of Fluids 2D and 3D Hydraulics Modeling Krieger Publishing Co., Inc., 645 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743
Davis, L. 1980 Assessment of the Impacts of the National Flood Insurance Program on Highways Floodplains Publication No. FHWA-RD-80-015, Keifer and Associates, Inc, Federal Highway Administration
Water Resources Council 1978 Floodplain Management Guidelines for Implementing Floodplains E.O. 11988, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC 20037

Note: Bolded entries are FHWA documents.

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