FLOW FROM A VESSEL

This chapter discusses a series of problems about the flow from vessels and explains the determination of discharge and jet-contraction coefficients. The chapter presents a scenario where it is assumed that the geometric elements of the vessel are given. If these quantities were specified in advance as a system of independent parameters, one would be led to a system of complicated transcendental equations that must be solved to obtain the discharge coefficients. This difficulty, which is characteristic of all jet-theory problems, was circumvented by choosing another set of independent parameters. All the desired characteristics of the flow could be expressed in terms of a new set of independent parameters.