Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 134
rough the distance h^, whichis approximately equal to Ji — /;„; finally it escapes at the level of thetail-race with thevelocity v, or thevelocity of the cir-cumference of thewheel. The rea-soning in the ar-ticle on overshotwheels may be ap-plied to this case,by making the fall7ij equal to zero,and… … Fig. 31. %^////.-^^y/:V////y>/////////V/y/// Breast Wheel with Supply Controlled byShuttle Gate. The maximum efficiency is theoretically: h.. r(Max.) = 1-i (64) (65) (66) The maximum work is theoretically: Work (Max.) = W (h-Vio) Practically, the coefficient of velocity of the entrance…
