AbstractsEarth & Environmental Science

The determination of friction-coefficients of water in small iron pipes

by Oliver Wendell Holmes




Institution: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Department:
Year: 1910
Record ID: 1500928
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/17639


Abstract

"This thesis was undertaken to determine accurately the coefficients of friction of water, flowing at varying velocities in small iron pipes and elbows. It was the intention to obtain the condition of pipes and elbows similar to that met with in general practice" – Introduction, p. 1.