Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics · Lesson 10 of 27

Dimensional Analysis and Hydraulic Similitude

Reduce a messy hydraulics problem to dimensionless pi groups with the Buckingham pi theorem, read the Reynolds, Froude, Weber, and Mach numbers as ratios of forces, and scale a physical model to its prototype through geometric, kinematic, and dynamic similarity on the Hydraulics and Geotechnical Engineering paper of the CELE.

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