Text & Readings

Our subject librarian and Quinney Library Director, Susanne Clement, has put together a great resource specifically for this class to help you in finding fluvial hydraulic and ecohydraulic literature. See the WATS 6900 LibGuide.

Required Text:

Dingman SL. 2008. Fluvial Hydraulics. Oxford University Press: New York, 576 pp.
 ISBN-13: 978-0195172867
  • You can read two chapters (not all) of the text as a Google Book here.
  • The book comes with some downloadable materials here.
  • The book is available on reserve in the library


Other Texts we Will Use:


Bates PD, Lane SN and Ferguson RI (Eds). 2005. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics. Computational Fluid Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 540 pp. DOI:10.1002/0470015195

  • EBook from Our Library
  • You can read some of the text as a Google Book here.
  • We will read some chapters out of here as assigned reading.
  • Download (for purchase) PDFs of the chapters here.


Chanson H. 2004. The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction. Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann: Oxford, 585 pp.
  • Available from our library in hardcopy
  • You can read some of the text as a Google Book here
  • We will read some of the chapters out of here as assigned reading
  • Download (for purchase) PDFs of the chapters here






Good Alternative or Reference Texts

  • Chow, V.T. (1959) Open-Channel Hydraulics. New York : McGraw-Hill, 680 pp.
  • Glossary & List of Symbols from Chanson (2004; above) pp. xx - xlvii (view most of it here)