Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics

The Need for Sustainable Drainage Urbanization replaces natural, vegetated landscapes with impermeable surfaces such as asphalt roads, concrete sidewalks, and…

The Physics of Hydraulic Shock Water hammer, or hydraulic shock, is a pressure surge or wave caused when a fluid…

Introduction Hydraulic turbines are turbomachines that extract energy from moving water and convert it into mechanical work, which is then…

Introduction Open channel flow describes fluid flow in a conduit with a free surface exposed to atmospheric pressure, such as…

The Physics of a Hydraulic Jump A hydraulic jump occurs when a rapid, high-velocity supercritical flow ($Fr > 1$) transitions…