Bathing Houses and Plunge Pools (Shire Library)

Bathing Houses and Plunge Pools (Shire Library)

In the eighteenth century most large country estates boasted a bathing house or plunge pool in their grounds: fashionable theories promoted a cold plunge for both sexes for health and hygiene purposes. Built in all shapes and sizes, sometimes just for one person, occasionally for group bathing, they often reflected classical design.

In addition to supposed health benefits, plunge pools provided somewhere away from the constraints and formality of life, and became a destination for walks, drives and alfresco entertainment. Mid-century, doctors began to promote salt-water bathing and a new generation of coastal bathing houses grew up. From several hundred bathing houses and plunge pools still in existence, often in remote corners of beautiful landscapes, this book presents examples that reflect the diversity of the ideas and fashions which inspired them.

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Plunge Pool Scour: A Physically Based Model for Analysis of Plunge Pool Scour Hole Formation

Plunge pool scour due to water jet impingement from flip bucket spillways is a major concern for stabilization of the hydraulic structures. Scour hole prediction using physical model is a potential tool to foresee its characteristics during design stage. This book presents an analysis of scour hole formation in a plunge pool using a physical model. In the model study, an ideal material was selected to represent actual river bed material so that scour hole can be reproduced. Moreover, many existing empirical equations of maximum scour depth and impact location estimation were reviewed, analyzed and categorized to suit with low, medium and high flow. Based on the experimental data, a new empirical equation for maximum scour depth prediction was initiated. With its useful techniques and practical tips, hydraulic engineers and researchers conducting studies in water engineering sector especially scour hole reproduction and forecasting provoked by water jet impingement or waterfall, could f

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