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Hydraulic Jump Experiment

The objectives of the hydraulic jump experiment were to create a hydraulic jump, verify fluid flow questions, and determine characteristics using equations. The experiment involved measuring depths upstream and downstream of a jump created by adjusting a sluice gate in a glass flume. Theoretical equations related the upstream and downstream depths. Results showed depths measured for different flows, with sources of error including human errors in measurement and imperfect experimental conditions versus theoretical assumptions.

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Hydraulic Jump Experiment

The objectives of the hydraulic jump experiment were to create a hydraulic jump, verify fluid flow questions, and determine characteristics using equations. The experiment involved measuring depths upstream and downstream of a jump created by adjusting a sluice gate in a glass flume. Theoretical equations related the upstream and downstream depths. Results showed depths measured for different flows, with sources of error including human errors in measurement and imperfect experimental conditions versus theoretical assumptions.

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Hydraulic Jump Experiment

Objectives of the experiments:

1. To create the hydraulic jump.

2. To verify the questions of fluid flow.

3. To determine the slatrility & characteristics of the hydraulic jump obtained in the lab
using Impulse momentum & specific energy equations.

4. To compare measured flow depths with theoretical results.

Theoretical background:

Hydraulic jumps are very efficient in dissipating the energy of the flow to make it
more controllable & less erosive. In engineering practice, the hydraulic jump
frequently appears downstream from overflow structures (spillways), or under flow
structures (sluice gates), where velocities are height.

A hydraulic jump is formed when liquid at high velocity discharges into a zone of
lower velocity only if the 3 independent velocities (y1, y2, fr1) of the hydraulic jump
equation conform to the following equation:

Y2 = y1/2 [-1+√1+8Fr2 ]

Fr2 = 92/9y3

Apparatus:
 Glass walled flume with sluice gates & a spillway arrangement
 Point gauges
 Manometer & scales
 Pump

Procedure for Hydraulic Jump Experiment:

1. I started the pump to supply water to the flume.

2. Then I closed the tail gate to allow water to accumulate and to develop hydraulic
jump.

3. I adjusted the position of the hydraulic jump by adjusting the amount of closure of
slvice gate.

4. I then measured the depth of the bed of flume by using a point gauge.

5. In the next step , I measured water surface level before it had crossed the spillway.
6. Then I measured height of spillway & the depth of water over the spillway.

7. Using the point gauges I then determined the water surface levels downstream of the
jump.

8. Then I measured y1 & y2.

9. I repeated the measurement steps again for a different flowchart.

Results:
S.No Hm(m) Y1(mm) Y2(mm) Lj(m) H(mn) H1(mn) H2
1 0.8 342 46 2 6.5 24 106 0.45

Sources of errors:
Human errors:
1. Errors occurred during measurements i.e. by taking erroneous reading of depths or in
micrometer.
2. Errors occurred in operation of sluice gates.
Instrumentation error:
 Leakage from the flume
 Assumptions of ideal conditions did not prevail:
 Ideal conditions which prevailed in the theoretical equations were not there and
frictional forces also had some effect on the experiment.

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