The historical use of physical model testing in free‐surface hydraulic engineering / Bill Addis
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| 13226 | Capítulo en monografía |
Reduced‐scale physical models were first used in the 1870s to study the flow of free‐surface water. They were carried out to explain why the navigable channel of the River Garonne in south‐west France silted up and required regular and expensive dredging. The model was built at a scale (in plan) of 1:100 alongside the real river. A decade later, Osborne Reynolds built a model of the estuary of the River Mersey near Liverpool at a horizontal scale of 1:32,000 so that the experiments could be conducted in a laboratory. This marked the birth of a new type of hydraulic model study that was emulated in laboratories throughout the world. The largest, and most sophisticated hydraulic model was one built to represent the entire Mississippi River Basin in the USA. The model, at a scale of 1:2000, is out of doors and occupies an area of 85 hectares.
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| Fundación Juanelo Turriano | 13226 |
Reduced‐scale physical models were first used in the 1870s to study the flow of free‐surface water. They were carried out to explain why the navigable channel of the River Garonne in south‐west France silted up and required regular and expensive dredging. The model was built at a scale (in plan) of 1:100 alongside the real river. A decade later, Osborne Reynolds built a model of the estuary of the River Mersey near Liverpool at a horizontal scale of 1:32,000 so that the experiments could be conducted in a laboratory. This marked the birth of a new type of hydraulic model study that was emulated in laboratories throughout the world. The largest, and most sophisticated hydraulic model was one built to represent the entire Mississippi River Basin in the USA. The model, at a scale of 1:2000, is out of doors and occupies an area of 85 hectares.
