Download or read book Surface Irrigation written by Wynn R. Walker and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of irrigation; The irrigation requirement; Surface irrigation systems; Field measurement techniques; Evaluation of the system; Volume balance field design; Land leveling; Operation of surface irrigation systems; Surge flow surface irrigation; Headland facilities; Fundamentals of surface irrigation hydraulics; The hydrodynamic model: characteristic approach; The hydrodynamic model: eulerian integration;The zero-inertia model; The kinematic-wave model; The volume balance model.