I’m working on developing a simplified mathematical model to describe the behaviour of a river system. With the model, controller can be designed to adjust the appropriate release of water to the designated user so that water loss can be minimised. That’s the basic idea.
Working with hydraulic system means I get to know some ‘mates’ in this area.
Introducing, Barré de Saint Venant.
The Saint Venant equations best describe the one-dimensional hydraulic flow under certain assumptions.
Next, I present to you, Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stoke.
C L Navier
G G Stoke
The Navier-Stoke equations, which can describe the three-dimensional hydraulic flow under certain assumptions is credited to them.
These are my mates that I will be working with 
May 12, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Navier-stokes equations, aren’t they notoriously hard to solve?
Or another name that came to my mind is Chandrasekhar, with his book “Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability”