Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 272, No. 1350 (Mar. 19, 1963), pp. 406-428 (23 pages) A class of two-dimensional channels, with walls ...

This section was adapted from The Engine and the Atmosphere: An Introduction to Engineering by Z. Warhaft, Cambridge University Press, 1997. How many times a day do we turn on a faucet? Do it now.

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