With a remarkable range and depth of coverage, Professor Mays;
internationally recognised for his highly acclaimed textbooks and
work in the field; presents a straight forward, easy to understand
presentation of hydraulic and hydrologic processes using the
control volume approach. These processes are then extended into
practical applications for water use and water excess, including
water distribution systems, stormwater control, and flood storage
systems.
Water Resources Engineering is a textbook that can be
used for the first undergraduate courses in hydraulics, hydrology,
or water resources engineering and for upper level undergraduate
and graduate courses in water resources engineering design.
This text is also intended as a reference for practicing
hydraulic engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers,
environmental engineers, and hydrologists.
Author Biography
Larry W. Mays is Professor in the Civil, Environmental,and Sustainable Engineering Group in the School of SustainableEngineering and the Build Environment at Arizona State University(ASU), and former chair of the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. Prior to ASU he was Director of theCenter for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texasat Austin, where he held an Engineering Foundation-endowedprofessorship. A registered professional engineer in severalstates, and a registered professional hydrologist, he has served asa consultant to many national and international Organizations. Professor Mays has published extensively in refereed journalpublications and in the proceedings of national and internationalconferences. He was the author of the first edition of this bookand Optimal Control of Hydrosystems (published by Marcel Dekker),and co-author of Applied Hydrology and Hydrosystems Engineering andManagement (both from McGraw-Hill) and Groundwater Hydrology(published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). He was editor-in-chiefof Water Resources Handbook, Water Distribution Systems Handbook,Urban Water Supply Management Tools, Stormwater Collection SystemsDesign Handbook, Urban Water Supply Handbook, Urban Water ResourcesSustainability, all published by McGraw-Hill. In addition, he waseditor-in-chief of Reliability Analysis of Water DistributionSystems and co-editor of Computer Methods of Free Surface andPressurized Flow published by McGraw-Hill. In addition, he waseditor-in-chief of Reliability Analysis of Water DistributionSystems and co-editor of Computer Methods of Free Surface andPressurized Flow published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
