I am pretty sure the urinal in my gym is designed to be splashy to inhibit people using it. Saves on the water bill. I can't think of any other reason...
Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
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Re: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
#12I think the European urinals already follow the proposed designs closely. They only compare to very old chunky designs.
Re: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
#13What did I just read?
I did not put some much effort for my bachelors project lol.
Re: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
#14What did I just read? I did not put some much effort for my bachelors project lol.
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Re: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
#15Possibly won't be very popular in all of the US: Urinals seem to be optimized for maximum noise (in some parts of Europe for minimum sound). Different design objectives. Or in some Southeast Asian countries, regular (small) toilets are optimized to be able to be flushed with a single bowl of water: Standing in front of them will almost always spray in all directions (but hot temperatures will usually take care of it quickly enough).
Re: Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
#16This comes close to my hobby science of 20 yrs+! Toilet statistics! What distribution do people follow in choosing doors? Linear (no!), Negative Binomial (I think so, but which parameters? And do the number of stalls matter?), Gaussian? Do cleaners clean all stalls proportionally? Which urinal to choose? Never pick a neighbor? Is there an optimization there? Then the economics part… Regarding OP. Splash isn’t the onl…
TFA does mention the fourth one is preferred in part because of cleaning. I think they wanted to show something that maximized for splash and a more realistic solution.