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Problems related to scale model testing

Why is it that a test tank or basin can’t be less than a football pitch and the little “models” used for R&D are 4.5 metres long and more at times? Wouldn’t things be easier and cheaper to test 50 cm models in a tank which is the size of a swimming pool? Certainly everything would be considerably easier but the results would not be at all realistic. In other

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