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The shape of free jets of water under gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

E. O. Tuck
E. O. Tuck
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Applied Mathematics Department, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5001
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Abstract

A study is made of the form taken by a slender jet of water whose only boundary is a free surface. The only forces acting are inertial and gravitational. Attention is paid to the cross-flow velocity components and to the development of the shape of the cross-section of the jet as it progresses. It is established that a jet with initially elliptic cross-sections can remain elliptical, and the variation in the aspect ratio along the jet is determined.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , 25 August 1976 , pp. 625 - 640
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© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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