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🚤 Canal Lock Chamber Levelling by Orifice Flow (2D side view)

2D side view of a canal lock: sluice gates fill or empty the chamber by Torricelli orifice flow while a narrowboat floats at its Archimedes draft. Same physics module as the 3D page, with draining, filling and pump checks.

Civil Engineering & Structural Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

canal lockTorricelliorifice flowbuoyancyhydraulic engineering

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install