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Thanks Frank and Jones, I often use the GSU physics website for
reference.
From the series of posts on this thread I suggest water has the ability to
mimic the energy storage ability like a capacitor has the ability to
store an electric charge. From our work using vortex mixing some interesting
observations have been logged over the years that suggest this ability of water
to store energy. The total energy stored seems to arrive
from other than hydrostatic or induced head unless the energy stored has a
cumulative property of its own.
We often use " shapes" upstream of the regime to induce a
vortex ahead of the mixing regime or channel. In some
installations this induced vortex seems to release energy on its own
which greatly assists the mixing. The standard formula used in mixing is
by calculating for G (the mixing velocity gradient) estimated as the
square root of the horsepower of the mixing motor divided by the volume of the
mixing regime times the viscosity of water assumed as
.0000235
The superior mixing results using " these vortex inducing shapes can be
demonstrated by introducing dye with the chemical and observing the downstream
results.
Granted that horsepower is horse hockey and torque is what a mule has in his rear, the formula for input horsepower vs mixing intensity simply doesn't " hold water" pun intended. Frank's math goes a long way to addressing the mystery
Richard
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