Reynolds, Osborne, 1842-1912, Brightmore, Arthur William, 1864-, Moorby, William Henry, 1872- · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 71
admission of air does act in this way. For the power ofa propeller to supply itself with water manifestly depends on the rapiditywith which fresh water will flow into the place of that which is drivenastern. Let us suppose A to be a vertical plate below the surface of the water,and capable of being… … might be such that the water would not keep up, and a .space would be leftbetween the plate and the following water. So long as its velocity wasnot sufficient for this, the quicker the velocity of the plate, the greater wouldbe the velocity of the follomng water; but after this limit had been…
