Greenhill, G. (George), Sir, 1847-1927 · London and New York, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 480
in theneighbourhood of E, as at the throat of the injector jet. At M the cross section is less than at E and thepressure is below atmospheric pressure, so that waterwill be drawn up in a curved piezometer tube like asiphon. THE VENA GONTRACTA. 469 By the observation of the heights in piezometer, at… … Fig. 104. 371. As an application of Bernoullis Theorem, LordRayleigh {Phil. Mag., 1876) determines the area A ofthe vena contracta of a jet, issuing from a re-entrant pipeat 0 (figs. 103,104), of cross section B, inserted in a pipeof cross section C; this ajutage is called a ring nozzle,and it is…
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