Simple Hydraulics

Water does not choose its path or its depth. The system decides both.

Simple Hydraulics builds on fluid mechanics to analyze engineering water systems, for engineering and applied-science students, independent learners, and readers revisiting the fundamentals of hydraulics.

17 chapters. 132 numbered problems with worked solutions. 106 figures. Learn to account for head across boundaries, nodes, and paths, state assumptions, track units and signs, and check what a numerical answer means.

Build a connected understanding of:

Hydraulic grade lines, head accounting, and pressure diagnostics.

Pipe resistance, series and parallel paths, branched systems, and looped networks.

Pumps, system curves, pump combinations, operating limits, and cavitation awareness.

Introductory pipe transients and water hammer.

Open-channel geometry, specific energy, critical flow, uniform flow, gradually varied flow, and the hydraulic jump.

Attempt-first practice, cumulative review gates, and a final integration chapter support active learning and independent method selection.

An essential-equation reference, notation guide, glossary, further-learning references, and index support review. SI units are the default.

The book begins where Simple Fluid Mechanics ends: a readiness check at the start helps you identify topics to revisit in that volume or an equivalent text.

Volume 2 of The Simple Science Series from Wise Falcon Books.