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DARCY, Recherches sur mouvement de l'eau dans les tuyaux, 1857
DARCY, Henry.
Recherches expérimentales relatives au mouvement de l'eau dans les tuyaux.
Paris, Mallet, 1857.
4to (282x227 mm), xxii-(2 bl.)-268 pages. binding : Original printed wrappers. Cover worn.
First edition.
Henry Darcy (1803-1858), inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées, was a French engineer whose work was fundamental to hydraulics.
This book presents his famous experiments that led to the Darcy-Weisbach equation for head loss in pipes and Darcy's law, which describes fluid flow through porous media.
Without the 12 plates that were published with the text in the 'Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des sciences' (Vol. XV. 1858).
references: Rouse & Ince [History of hydraulics, 170 :"Darcy's great contribution to hydraulics lay in his conclusive demonstration of the fact that the resistance depended upon the type and condition of the boundary material."], Bibliotheca mechanica [p. 86 :"Hydraulic engineers had long known that Prony's formula was inaccurate when strictly applied. Darcy's extensive series of experiments was undertaken in order to arrive at more accurate techniques of calculating the flow of water in pipes."].
Price : 250 €
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