I was aware of the situation with the Old River Control Structure that you wrote up and agree with your conclusions. The Mississippi in geological time has shifed it's course many times at about 10,000 year intervals to redeposit its silt where ever needed. This process is now interrupted by...
I visited New Orleans this past weekend Oct 8-9, 2005. It is a city in the depths of a death blow grasping for breath to survive. Historically there has not been a catastrophe of this magnitude that I know of, since the Mississippi River basin flooding which occurred in the 1920s. In nature...
This is a common problem with impellers. There are some excellent coating available now to lessen the effects of "sandblasting".
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Problem: Petroleum in storage in underground caverns absorbs gas from the cirrounding formation. How would you approach calculating the gas regain rate of crude oil over a period of time?
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