I am in the process of buildingConsider a rainwater collection system and I want to know if the water will flow like I am thinking it will.
The diagram of what I have in mind looks like thisas illustrated below:
I haveThere are two 55 gallon barrels which I planused to use as holding tanksstore water coming down the gutter. These These barrels are connected together on the bottom to maintain equal water level between the two barrelsthem. They will be They are fed by a 4" vertical pipe feeding intoconnected to a 2" horizontal pipe.
My question is: whenWhen the 4" dia. vertical pipe on one end fills with water, the water will run into the horizontal pipe and begin to fill the barrels, but will. Will the barrels maintain the same level as in the 4" dia. vertical pipe, assuming input flow rate isn't too much to overwhelm the 2" horizontal pipe? In In other words -: is $h_1 = h_2$ in mythe diagram? I I think it should be so, but I am not sure of theso if it is true what physical principle is at work to keep the levels equal when the diameter of the barrel is different than the diameter of the pipe.?