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  2. Froude number - Wikipedia

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    The Froude number is based on the speed–length ratio which he defined as: [2] [3] = where u is the local flow velocity (in m/s), g is the local gravity field (in m/s 2), and L is a characteristic length (in m). The Froude number has some analogy with the Mach number.

  3. Dimensionless numbers in fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.

  4. Antidune - Wikipedia

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    Antidunes occur in supercritical flow, meaning that the Froude number is greater than 1.0 or the flow velocity exceeds the wave velocity; this is also known as upper flow regime. In antidunes, sediment is deposited on the upstream (stoss) side and eroded from the downstream (lee) side, opposite lower flow regime bedforms.

  5. Open-channel flow - Wikipedia

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    The parameter is known as the Froude number, and is defined as: = where is the mean velocity, is the characteristic length scale for a channel's depth, and is the gravitational acceleration. Depending on the effect of viscosity relative to inertia, as represented by the Reynolds number , the flow can be either laminar , turbulent , or ...

  6. Hydraulic jump - Wikipedia

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    Figure 4: An undular front on a tidal bore. At this point the water is relatively deep and the fractional change in elevation is small. A tidal bore is a hydraulic jump which occurs when the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travel up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the current. [16]

  7. Category:Dimensionless numbers of fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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  8. William Froude - Wikipedia

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    William Froude (/ f r uː d /; [2] 28 November 1810 – 4 May 1879) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability.

  9. Stratified flows - Wikipedia

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    It is known that the sub critical flow of a stratified fluid past a barrier produce motions upstream of the barrier. Sub critical flow may be defined as a flow for which the Froude number based on channel height is less than 1/π, so that one or more stationary lee waves would be present. Some of the upstream motions do not decompose with the ...