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The velocity of falling rubbles in quiescent water.

Publication year Port and Airport Research Institute Technical Note 0249 1976.12
Author(s) Hidetoshi TAKAHASHI,Motoi KONDO,Taisei KOIWA,MINEO IWASAKI,Yasuo SHIRATORI,Tooru KIKUYA,Yoshihiro SATO,Masaru SAITO,Shigeru MATSUMOTO
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Machinery Division Working Craft Development Laboratory
Executive Summary

The behavior and velocity of falling rubbles in quiescent water depends on their weight, specific gravity, diameter, shape etc.
 We conducted some falling experiments on falling velocity and drag coefficient of the rubbles, classifying the rubbles by their weight (5g~1t) and flatness ratio (0.1~0.8) as a shape function into the groupe.
 In this experiment we confirmed that falling velocity is in proportion to the sixth root of their weight, and decreases rapidly with increaseing their flatness ratio.
 We also found that drag coefficient increases rapidly with increasing flatness ratio.
 We measured falling velocity of the rubbles as a groupe (5 and 10), but their velocity is not different from that of individual rubbles.

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