Hydraulic motors, with related subjects, including centrifugal pumps, pipes, and open channels, designed as a text-book for engineering schools (1905)
Church, Irving Porter, 1851-1931 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons; [etc, ] · leaf 262
and withits diameter in the surface of the water; and its hydraulicradius, R, is equal to the half-depth. According to Prof. Bovey (Hydraulics, 2nd ed., p. 231) theangle 0 should not be made greater than the .values given belowfor different characters ofbank, respectively:with retaining walls 63°… … 218 HYDRAULIC MOTORS. §134. to 2 ft. per second or under; with timber or rock for bottomand sides, however, v may be allowed to reach values of 6to 10 ft. per second. 134. Numerical Example. Open Channel Supplying Wheel-pit.—An open channel with bottom and sides of averagerubble masonry and whose…
Hydraulic machinery
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