Two depths, and a gap the model will not describe
The surface either side of a hydraulic jump at an arriving Froude number of 5.05. Both depths are exact consequences of the momentum balance. The distance between them is not: the shallow-water model has no length scale in it and cannot say how far the transition takes, so the region between the two levels is left blank and the six-depth rule of thumb beside it is somebody's measurement rather than this site's result.
3 essays call
hydraulic-jump. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member
of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.
It is also the blast radius. Changing hydraulic-jump changes every figure listed here
at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show —
which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.
Where it is called
What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.
- The shock in a river Fluids at work
- The depth that costs least Fluids at work
- The number that really is one Regimes and numbers