Vijay Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has 47 years of experience in research and teaching in hydrology, groundwater, hydraulics, and water resources. He is a Distinguished member of ASCE, an Honorary member of IWRA, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA. He has received more than 100 national and international awards, including three honorary doctorates.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Governing Equations; 3. Regime Theory; 4. Leopold and Maddock (LM) Theory; 5. Theory of Minimum Variance; 6. Dimensional Principles; 7. Hydrodynamic Theory; 8. Scaling Theory; 9. Tractive Force Theory; 10. Thermodynamic Theory; 11. Similarity Principle; 12. Channel Mobility Theory; 13. Maximum Discharge and Froude Number Hypothesis; 14. Principle of Minimum Froude Number; 15. Hypothesis of Maximum Friction Factor; 16. Maximum Flow Efficiency Hypothesis; 17. Principle of Least Action; 18. Theory of Minimum Energy Dissipation Rate; 19. Entropy Theory; 20. Minimum Energy Dissipation and Maximum Entropy Theory; 21. Stream Power; 22. Regional Hydraulic Geometry; References; Index.

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