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AT the Friday evening discourse held at the Royal Institution on April 13, Prof. A. H. Gibson discussed “Tidal Estuaries: Forecasting by Model Experiments”. During recent years much work has been done on models reproducing the flow of water over weirs, through sluice gates, etc., and it has been found that, if suitable precautions are taken, the model results give a reliable indication of the behaviour of the original. River flow models are now being extensively used to investigate the erosion and deposition of bed materials and the effect of works designed to improve the navigable channel. The technique of such investigations is not yet fully developed, different methods being used in different laboratories. Chronologically, models of tidal estuaries were used before those of uni-flow rivers, the first tidal models (of the Mersey Estuary) having been constructed by Osborne Reynolds in 1885.
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Models of Tidal Estuaries. Nature 133, 605–606 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133605d0
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