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 168
c-tional and air resistances have notbeen considered in the above anal-ysis; both increase rapidly with increased speed of rotation. In gen-eral, however, it may be stated that within certain limits the efficiencyof a reaction wheel increases with the speed and with the smallness ofthe angle fi;… … Kevolving Vessel with llollowArms Attached. 82 WATER-POWER DEVELOPMENT nionly known as Barkers Mill. It is the reaction wheel described inthe preceding article, with the direction of the issuing streams ofwater directly opposite to that of revolution, or y8 =0. Making f3 =0 in the preceding…
