Small lego block or toy houses under scaled down water flow will not get blown away, but large houses with water flow scaled up will, as seen in nepal. Why?
>>138426
small lego faces small water, lego stable
big lego faces big water
but ratio of small lego to big lego strength is not the same as force of small water to big water
so big water with more force knock down big lego
>>138426
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>>138488
It's called square cube law. This law is usually used in context of animal sizes but it also applies here. When you increase the size by two times, the volume increases 8 times, that is mass also increases 8 times.
You can just double the size of the fountain and then expect it to withstand 8 times the size. You'll need an entirely different architecture to handle the 8 times volume.
>>138426
>inb4 but buildings also increase volume 8 times, why don't they resist as much
Yeah but their cross sectional surface area only increase 4 times, which again won't be able to handle force of 8 times the volume.
