OPEN-CHANNEL HYDRAULICS OF INDUSTRIAL MELTS.

In the glass-making industry, one discernible trend is directed toward the structuring of casting plants around single, central furnaces which then feed a possibly large number of individual and widely dispersed forming machines. The conveyance of the liquid glass takes place in open-channels of often considerable length. The generally non-uniform motion in these conduits is laminar and, as such, is very much dependent upon the shape of the …