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The radial spread of a liquid jet over a horizontal plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

E. J. Watson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Abstract

When a smooth jet of water falls vertically on to a horizontal plane, it spreads out radially in a thin layer bounded by a circular hydraulic jump, outside which the depth is much greater. The motion in the layer is studied here by means of boundary-layer theory, both for laminar and for turbulent flow, and relations are obtained for the radius of the hydraulic jump. These relations are compared with experimental results. The analogous problems of two-dimensional flow are also treated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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