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THE earliest work on tidal models was carried 1 out by Osborne Reynolds at the University of Manchester in 1885 on scale models of the Mersey estuary. This was followed by an investigation into the general question of the use of such models, in which Reynolds co-operated with a committee appointed for this purpose by the British Association in 1888. The experiments were devoted mainly to an examination of the behaviour of models of the same hypothetical estuary, of symmetrical shape, to different scales. As a result of this investigation, the committee reported in 1891 to the effect that “It would seem therefore that by carefully observing certain [stated] precautions, the method of model investigation may now be applied with confidence to practical problems”.
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GIBSON, A. Tidal Estuaries: Forecasting by Model Experiments*. Nature 133, 969–972 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133969a0
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