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The speed of drifting bodies in a stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. R. D. Francis
J. R. D. Francis
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London
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Abstract

The speed of free floating bodies on the surface of a water stream in a sloping channel has been found to be sensibly the same as the mean speed of the layer of water in which the bodies are floating, contrary to some recorded opinions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , November 1956 , pp. 517 - 520
Copyright
© 1956 Cambridge University Press

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