The bottomless dam

Abstract The purpose of the work reported here is to show that it is more fruitful to consider the bottomless (infinitely deep) dam as an approximation to the finite dam rather than the topless (infinitely high) dam considered hitherto. It is shown by taking a wide variety of input models that the theory for the former is far simpler, and the final results are in a form simple enough to give a quick estimate of the size of the reservoir required.

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