Chances are that you’ve seen plenty of hydraulic jumps in your life, whether they were in your kitchen sink, the whitewater of a river, or at the bottom of a Keep reading
Tag: channel flow
Structures in Turbulence
Despite its appearance, there is order in the chaos of turbulence. These snapshots from a turbulent channel flow simulation outline these coherent structures in black. The top photo shows a Keep reading
Vortex Street Sim
This numerical simulation shows a von Karman vortex street in the wake of a bluff body. As flow moves over the object, vortices are periodically shed off the object’s upper Keep reading
River Jumps
Hydraulic jumps occur when a high velocity liquid runs into an area of low velocity liquid. The faster moving liquid decelerates rapidly and increases in height, effectively trading kinetic energy Keep reading