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Hydraulic jumps
- Controlling the flow of water is one of the fundamental objectives of modern infrastructure, from flood and rivers to irrigation canals, storm water drainage facilities to aqueducts, and even spillways of dams. So engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don't always behave the way you'd expect. Hey, I'm Grady, and this is Practical Engineering. On today's episode, we're talking about one of the most interesting phenomena in open channel flow, the hydraulic jump. (bright music) Fluid dynamics might sound as complicated as rocket science, but unlike rockets, you probably already have some intuitions about how water flows. The study of how water with a free surface behaves, that is, not confined within a pipe, is known as open channel hydraulics. This field is especially useful in civil engineering, where structures can't usually…
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