Experimental engineering and manual for testing (1903)
Carpenter, Rolla C. (Rolla Clinton), 1852-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 274
Fig. :io.—Section of Overshot Watek- WHEEL. 284 EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING. [§ 241. Let d equal the depth of the buckets, b the width of thewheel, r the radius of the wheel, n the number of revolutionsper second, v the peripheral velocity in feet per second, Q thewater-supply in cubic feet per… … Fig. III.—Section of Breast-wheel. Then, supposing the wheel to be set just free of the backwater, h= 2r -\- (i J to 2) all in feet; N = —J- = , usually, 6r ; 0, = —{2rd— ^) = bdv, nearly; V = 2nnr.
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