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How do you calculate peak flow?

Updated: 10/5/2023
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Use those speacial reading graphs

You should have a hydrograph to look at.

Look at the curve on this graph, the highest point on this curve is the peak flow.

It cannot be calculated, just read off a graph.

Peak Flow = Tidal Volume x 60 / I-time

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