Hydraulic Engineering

My Instructor for Advanced Hydraulics had mention this book in class and recommended it for the future. He kept his own copy, so I had picked one up myself. It has came in handy for reference material. I work with pump designs and hydraulic systems modeling and this edition is still very helpful.

Good

This book for the price paid was beyond used. It was trashed. I would have paid the extra 30 dollars had I know it was going to be in such BAD condition.

Our class is only required to read parts of Chapters 4 and 5, about open and closed conduit flows (the rest is from the professor's notes). From what I've read so far, the reading is quite straightforward and easy to comprehend. There are so many fluid mechanics text books out there to choose from, and this one looks like a good choice, in my opinion.

The spine of the book was ripped and pages were falling out when I received it in the mail.

The book is informative, but lacks essential elements in examples that are required in the chapter problems. More to the point: The examples in the chapters are way too simple compared to the problems at the end. This book definitely needs some updating to keep up with Wiley's standards. Not a keeper.

The book fell apart right after I received it and even had crappy tape holding it together.