Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Significant developments in hydraulic engineering in the past 200 years
- In
- Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Civil Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. CE30, no. 2, 1988, pp. 73-78
- Abstract
Major achievements in hydraulics since the times of Bernoulli, the advent of hydrodynamics and advances in experimental hydraulics in the second half of the eighteenth century, the progress of hydraulics and hydrodynamics in the nineteenth and the rise of hydraulic laboratories and fluid mechanics in the first half of the twentieth century are briefly surveyed. The present problems of hydraulic engineering brought about by the large parameters of structures, their complexity and their environmental impact are discussed. The paper concludes with a brief exposition of the contemporary role of physical modelling in hydraulic engineering.