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Hydraulic Jump Visualizer

Show sequent depth, energy loss, and jump class for a rectangular-channel hydraulic jump from upstream Froude number.

visual calculatorMultiphase Flow

Read the flow shape before trusting the number.

This page turns a CFD setup into regime, scale, and dominant-effect cues. Adjust the calculator below and compare the moving graphic with the computed result.

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hydraulic jumpFroudeopen channelfree surface
formula
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y2/y1 = 0.5 [sqrt(1 + 8 Fr1ˆ2) - 1]DeltaE = (y2-y1)ˆ3/(4 y1 y2)\begin{aligned}\text{y2/y1 = 0.5 [sqrt(1 + 8 Fr1\^{}2) - 1]}\\[0.35em]\text{DeltaE = (y2-y1)\^{}3/(4 y1 y2)}\end{aligned}
ASCII sourcey2/y1 = 0.5 [sqrt(1 + 8 Fr1^2) - 1], DeltaE = (y2-y1)^3/(4 y1 y2)
supercritical to subcritical jumpy1y2
Fr1
2.874
y2 / y1
3.595
y2 (m)
0.899
energy loss (m)
0.3038
class
oscillating jump

Hydraulic jumps are shallow-water shock analogs. This rectangular-channel estimate is useful for free-surface CFD initialization.