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Antoine de Chezy (1718–1798), a French engineer who conducted studies in connection with the construction of canals, pioneered the development of a formula for computing friction loss of water flowing in an open channel or in a pipe.
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Wass, H.S., Fleming, R.P. (2020). Friction Loss of Water Flowing in a Pipe. In: Sprinkler Hydraulics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02595-3_12
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