Irrigation Craft recommends the following references for further study.
Centrifugal and Axial Flow Pumps
Second Edition, 1957, 1993 Reprint
A. J. Stepanoff, Ph.D.
Designing, Operating and Maintaining Piping Systems Using PVC Fittings
1987 Edition
Ron D. Bliesner = Keller-Bliesner Engineering, Logan Utah
The Irrigation Association
6540 Arlington Boulevard
Falls Church, VA 22042-6638
USA
Flow Control Devices
Y. Dvir
1995 Edition
Published by Control Appliances Books for Bermad Control Valves
Hydraulic Institute / ANSI Centrifugal Pump Tests
ANSI/HI 1.6-2000
Irrigation
Fifth Edition, 1983
The Irrigation Association
6540 Arlington Boulevard
Falls Church, VA 22042-6638
USA
National Electrical Code (NEC) - NFPA-70
2002 Edition (Current Edition at this time)
NEC Handbook 2002
National Fire Protection Association
One Battery Park
Quincy, Massachusetts 02269
Pump Handbook
Third Edition, 2001
McGraw Hill
Karassik, Messina, Cooper, Heald
Turf Irrigation Manual
James A. Watkins
1978 Edition
Telsco Publications
Underwriters Laboratories
UL-508A - Enclosed Industrial Control Panels
UL-QCZJ - Packaged Pumping Systems
The article on Cavitation used the following additional resources:
Dr. Roger E. A. Arndt
Professor
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
The link above has been down, follow this link instead.
Some of the Papers and Books Mr. Arndt has authored, co-authored, or has been an editor for:
Advances in Turbulence
Editors: William K. George, Roger Arndt
Publisher: New York : Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1989.
ISBN: 0-89116-747-1Hydropower Engineering Handbook
John S. Gulliver, editor in chief, Roger E. A. Arndt, editor in chief Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1991. ISBN: 0-07025-193-2Aeration Technology: Presented at the 1994 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 19-23, 1994
International Symposium on Cavitation Noise and Erosion in Fluid Systems/Fed Vol. 88/H00557: Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Francisco, December 10-15, 1989 (Fed (Series), Vol. 88.) Roger E. A. Arndt, M. L. Billet, William K. Blake, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winter Meeting.
Hydroacoustic Facilities Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques/Nca10/No H00712: Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1-6, 1991 (NCA (Series), V. 10.)
by T. M. Farabee, Roger E. A. Arndt, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winter Meeting (1991 Atlanta (Cor)/ American Society of Mechanical Engineers Noise Control and Acoustics d
June, 1991
Joachim Holzfuss, Matthias Rüggeberg, Andreas Billo August 7, 1998, Physical Review Letters 81, No. 23 (1998)
K.M. Kalumuck and G.L. Chahine
Dynaflo, Inc.
Presented at the Cavitation Conference, 2001, session 4.006
Swiss Polytechnic Institute (2001)
Swiss National Fund, Project No 2100-057253.99/1
Dr. Mohamed Farhat, Professor Francois Avellan, and Philippe Couty
Young (1989)
Tomita and Shima (1977)
Fujikawa and Akamatsu (1980)
Terry Henshaw (Pumps and Systems Magazine, 2001-2002)
