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Hydraulic jumps on an incline

Fluid Dynamics 2010-09-02 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

When a fluid jet strikes an inclined solid surface at normal incidence, gravity creates a flow pattern with a thick outer rim resembling a parabola and reminiscent of a hydraulic jump. There appears to be little theory or experiments describing simple aspects of this phenomenon, such as the maximum rise height of the fluid above the impact point, and its dependence on jet velocity and inclination angle. We address this with experiments, and present a simple theory based on horizontal hydraulic jumps which accounts for the rise height and its scaling, though without describing the shape of the parabolic envelope.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0083,
  title  = {Hydraulic jumps on an incline},
  author = {Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Andrew Belmonte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0083},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures, PDFLaTeX with JFM style

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