WHAT IS HYDRAULIC JUMP?

A hydraulic jump is the sudden

transition from a supercritical
open channel flow regime to a
subcritical flow motion that
usually seen below weirs and
sluice gates where a smooth
stream of water suddenly rises
at a foaming front.

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How hydraulic jump happen?

The hydraulic jump phenomena that

occurred in the sink is happen when a jet of
water descends vertically from a tap onto
the base of a residential sink, the water
spreads in a thin film radially outwards until
it reaches a radius where the film thickness
abruptly rises.

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 CHARACTERISTIC OF HYDRAULIC
JUMP
✘ Hydraulic jump helps to
dissipate the excess energy
of the water flowing over the
spillway of the hydraulic
dams.
✘ It is used to remove air
pockets from the water
supply pipe.
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✘ This helps to increase the
weight on one apron of the
hydraulic structure due to the
increase in depth of flow, hence
the uplift pressure on the apron
is quite unbalanced.
 Also used for the aeration and
de-chlorination of aeration.
 THEORY

On vertical and sloping surfaces, a similar phenomenon occurs in which the liquid layer
extends radially outwards before creating a jump. All available hypotheses attribute the
origin of the hydraulic jump to gravity, meaning that the jump site should be responsive to
surface orientation.
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✘ . In theory, the flow must be in the supercritical range where
the Froude number (NF) describes critical flow:

where:
✘u is the fluid velocity (m/s)
✘g is the acceleration of gravity
(m/s2)
✘y is the depth of the fluid stream
(m)