The School of Civil Engineering would like to congratulate Professor Rao S. Govindaraju on the recent publication of his book, "Moment Analysis for Subsurface Hydrologic Applications," which he co-authored with Bhabani S. Das.  This book deals with the concept of moments, and how they find application in subsurface hydrologic problems-particularly those dealing with solute transport. This book will be very valuable to researchers who are beginning to learn about moment analysis, and will also be of interest to advanced researchers as well. Both temporal and spatial moments are dealt with in some detail for a wide variety of problems. Several examples using experimental data, both from laboratory columns and field experiments, are provided to give the readers a clear idea about the scope of this method. Apart from conventional uses of moments for solute transport problems, this book contains chapters dealing with use of moments in interval computing, vapour phase transport applications, transfer functions to subsurface tile drains, and construction of breakthrough curves from knowledge of moments.

More information is available on the publisher's website:
http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-22-173708544-0&changeHeader=true