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It does rely on incompressibility, but, to this order, does not include surface tension. The water faucet puzzle that interested me as a student was after the
by leephillips 6y ago
It does rely on incompressibility, but, to this order, does not include surface tension.
The water faucet puzzle that interested me as a student was after the water had reached the sink and begun to spread out radially from the stream. Have you noticed that there is a circular boundary where the layer of water suddenly changes depth?
- bradrn 6y ago> Have you noticed that there is a circular boundary where the layer of water suddenly changes depth? I stumbled upon an explanation for this a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_jump
- brilee 6y agogoogle "hydraulic jump" Separately, when you model surface tension, you get an equation for when a stream breaks up into droplets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%E2%80%93Rayleigh_instability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%E2%80%93Rayleigh_insta...
- Lichtso 6y agoYou mean the hydraulic termination shock? Something like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ryzFfMYaEV4/TZist3z0dxI/AAAAAAAAAE4/F5gwLB6L8Ic/s1600/termination_shock.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ryzFfMYaEV4/TZist3z0dxI/AAAAAAAAAE...
- leephillips 6y agoYup. It turns out to be more complicated than one (or than I) would think at first.