How long does it take to read The Mechanics of Scour in the Marine Environment?
B. Mutlu Sumer
The Mechanics of Scour in the Marine Environment by B. Mutlu Sumer takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 536 pages, about 147,400 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Publisher description: Treats the subject of local scour around different kinds of marine structures, exposed to waves and/or currents. Describes in detail the hydrodynamic processes causing the erosion.
Subjects: Sedimentation and deposition, Scour (Hydraulic engineering), Offshore structures, Foundations, Coastal engineering, Marine ecology