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  2. Venturi effect - Wikipedia

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    The limiting case of the Venturi effect is when a fluid reaches the state of choked flow, where the fluid velocity approaches the local speed of sound of the fluid. When a fluid system is in a state of choked flow, a further decrease in the downstream pressure environment will not lead to an increase in velocity, unless the fluid is compressed.

  3. Hydraulic jumps in rectangular channels - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the jump travels downstream and initiates at a point where the upstream flow depth (y 1 ’) has risen to the conjugate of the new downstream tailwater depth (y d). This rise from y 1 to y 1 ’ is caused by frictional resistance in the channel; and velocity decrease, the depth increase

  4. Choked flow - Wikipedia

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    The rate does not depend on the downstream pressure at all. All other terms are constants that depend only on the composition of the material in the flow. Although the gas velocity reaches a maximum and becomes choked, the mass flow rate is not choked. The mass flow rate can still be increased if the upstream pressure is increased as this ...

  5. 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]

  6. Standard step method - Wikipedia

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    This can only occur in a smooth channel that does not experience any changes in flow, channel geometry, roughness or channel slope. During uniform flow, the flow depth is known as normal depth (yn). This depth is analogous to the terminal velocity of an object in free fall, where gravity and frictional forces are in balance (Moglen, 2013). [3]

  7. Isentropic nozzle flow - Wikipedia

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    After M e = 1 is reached at the nozzle exit for p r = 0.5283p 0, the condition of choked flow occurs and the velocity throughout the nozzle cannot change with further decreases in p r. This is due to the fact that pressure changes downstream of the exit cannot travel upstream to cause changes in the flow conditions.

  8. Eddy (fluid dynamics) - Wikipedia

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    The moving fluid creates a space devoid of downstream-flowing fluid on the downstream side of the object. Fluid behind the obstacle flows into the void creating a swirl of fluid on each edge of the obstacle, followed by a short reverse flow of fluid behind the obstacle flowing upstream, toward the back of the obstacle.

  9. Turbulence - Wikipedia

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    that is, the difference in flow velocity between points separated by a vector r (since the turbulence is assumed isotropic, the flow velocity increment depends only on the modulus of r). Flow velocity increments are useful because they emphasize the effects of scales of the order of the separation r when statistics are computed.