Sentence examples for point upstream from inspiring English sources

By 1700 the Virginia frontier had been pushed as far west as the fall line the point upstream at which the rivers emptying into the Atlantic became unnavigable.

The Times found that samples taken by the state in the Monongahela River — a source of drinking water for parts of Pittsburgh — came from a point upstream from the two sewage treatment plants on that river.

When opened, the leaves are housed in lock wall recesses; when closed, after turning through about 60°, they meet on the lock axis in a V shape with its point upstream.

The electric field at the sub-flow point upstream of Titan contains a twist.

Each run shows a discontinuity in the field strength in the sub-flow point upstream of Titan.

Five ultrasonic anemometers are used to measure flow velocities above the roof of a 6 m cube and at a reference point upstream.

When closed, the gates meet at an obtuse angle that points upstream in order to resist the water pressure.

Swollen from snow melt and rain, the river ran high and cold the first half of April, barreling along and swirling with foam and assorted flotsam from points upstream.

The development of the mitre lock, a double-leaf gate the closure of which formed an angle pointing upstream, heralded a period of extensive canal construction during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Standard reservoir simulation schemes employ single-point upstream weighting for approximation of the convective fluxes when multiple phases or components are present.

(12)–(15) are descripted as following three main steps: (a) one-point upstream transmissibility weighting; (b) fully implicit transmissibilities using chord slope method to estimate derivatives; (c) Newton's Raphson's method to handle nonlinearities resulting from the use of capillary pressure.