What is a Hydraulic Jump?

Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this episode of Practical Engineering, we’re talking about one of the most interesting phenomena in open-channel flow: the hydraulic jump.
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[@TwisterKidMedia]

We also observe hydraulic jumps in atmospheric science. They often happen downstream of mountain rages when mountain waves break. Super critical flow trapped above an inversion layer can transition to sub critical and cause deep mixing of the boundary layer. This mixing transports high winds to the surface in addition to the turbulence being induced by the terrain. This can lead to intense downslope windstorms also called chinook or fohn winds. Where I work in Wyoming, we often see wave breaks and hydraulic jumps produce damaging wind gusts over 100 mph.

[@trucid2]

How is sub and supercritical flow defined for air?

[@TwisterKidMedia]

@@trucid2 essentially the same way as explained through here. Air is a fluid so it behaves the same as water or other fluids but with different viscosity.

[@trucid2]

@@TwisterKidMedia He defined it in terms of wave speed. How would that work for air?

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@@trucid2 Never heard of supersonic storms before? 😂

[@feynstein1004]

@trucid2 Wave speed is just the speed at which a longitudinal wave (such as sound) travels through a fluid. This speed is generally constant for a fluid. What changes is the speed at which the fluid itself is flowing. So if air were moving very quickly at a place and then coming to an abrupt halt, that place would have a hydraulic jump of air.

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Perhaps you could show a study of the dangers of low head dams?

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The drowning machine!

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An intresting video presentation by Ed Kern from 2013: "Fatal Currents - Low Head Dam Presentation" (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqS8mIJ6otKcd68)

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Especially since he mentioned how some rec facilities use hydraulic jumps. Makes me nervous to think of some dumb amateur kayaker looking for a spot of turbulence for fun. Designed facilities are not the same thing as found facilities, folks!

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@@msaynevirta Thank you for the link. This video definitely reminda me of that presentation.

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Also known as a weir

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Fascinating. I got absorbed into the video and ended up in a calm place (the atmospheric music and friendly manners helped a lot). Thank you grady

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Another great video! The only thing I would have added is a little discussion about what the Froude number is in various flow regimes. It would be useful for Civil students and others interested in understanding these things.

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[@daemn42]

In the process of researching the failure of the Oroville dam's main spillway in 2017, I read up on the earlier 2009 failure of their River Valve Outlet System, which involved a hydraulic jump. Their RVOS pulls water from the lowest/coldest point of the reservoir where it flows through a tunnel to a point under the dam near the turbine outlets (head pressure at about 300psi), and then can be released through a cone valve into another long tunnel that is joined by water from the turbine outlets (the tailrace). RVOS is designed to maintain minimum flow in the river when the reservoir drops below the turbine inlets and to regulate temperature for fish in the river. Oroville's Hyatt power plant is a pumping power station so the turbine outlets are submerged in their own trailrace which can either flow out into the Thermalito Diversion Pool, or pull water back from it when the turbines run as pumps. The tailrace consists of two 35ft diameter, 2000ft long tunnels. One is fully submerged, the other half full and they're cross joined. RVOS cone valves output into the half full tunnel at *extremely* high pressures and flow rates. Normally it blasts the water onto an angled steel dispersion ring which absorbs the high velocity flow from the valves, to merge it more smoothly with the low velocity flow of the half filled tunnel. The ring had been damaged due to many years of use so earlier in 2009, they removed it.. (presumably with intent to replace). Then a few months later management thought it would be interesting to conduct a test to open the RVOS valve to 100% to see what effect it would have (1. they'd been told never to run it at 100% due to prior damage 2. design specs said RVOS was never to be operated without dispersion ring). The manually operated control (just a big wheel) for the RVOS cone valve sits in a chamber connected through a long person tunnel up into the inner turbine room, and that chamber is separated from the ring valve outlet by a fully sealed 20ft tall steel wall. That wall was designed to fail with 15ft of head pressure behind it in the unlikely event that the manual control valve failed and let water into that chamber. This wall failure would prevent water from backing up the person tunnel into the turbine room. So.. 5 people enter the control room, and start to open the RVOS valve up to 100%. At 85% all hell breaks loose. The valves release about 4-5K CFS of water at extremely high velocity into a half filled tunnel, and without the dispersion ring this accelerates the velocity of the water in the tunnel for a few hundred feet. During original design (including extensive small scale testing), they realized that even with the dispersion ring a hydraulic jump could form as high velocity flow meets low, that might reach up to the roof of the tunnel, which could cause a vacuum condition in the tunnel upstream of the jump. So they built in a vent in the roof several hundred feet down the tunnel connected by a large tube running back to another vent in the cone valves outlet chamber. Idea being that if the jump formed between the two vents sealing the tunnel it could still equalize the air pressure on either side of it. But without the dispersion ring in place, the jump moved much further down the tunnel than design called for, and blocked the lower vent. This caused a siphon pump effect back to the valve outlet chamber, eventually causing high enough vacuum that the steel wall designed to hold back 15ft of water, blew out into the tunnel almost taking the 5 people in that chamber with it. Doors further up the man tunnel also failed and debris was sucked down that tunnel pelting the people in the chamber now open to raging water and continuing vacuum. With hurricane force winds coming from the person tunnel through the chamber into the RVOS outlet someone managed to turn off the valve to stop the flow. One person was seriously injured. RVOS was repaired in 2014, and operated again that year when drought conditions dropped the reservoir below the turbine inlets.

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:O ......

[@allencummings7564]

Why tho? Why did they want to try that?

[@thom1218]

So what consequences did management face for reckless endangerment of 5 lives? Let me guess... a raise, promotion, transfer, or all three of the above.

[@daemn42]

@@allencummings7564 Short answer. They're idiots. Long answer according to the investigative report afterwards.. ""DWR removed the baffle ring in April 2009, four months before the test. It did so without consulting its Division of Dam Safety, which should have approved that action first. The test was ordered because DWR “wanted to determine the destructive effects” of opening the valves to 100 percent, according to the investigation."' Mission accomplished.

[@allencummings7564]

Military application then?

[@yukiyama1391]

So, how do they prevent the hydraulic jump structure from eroding?

[@Fuyudo]

Make it out of concrete ;)

[@sarge852]

I would imagine (in a dam example) that because the slipway and hydraulic jump section is generally exposed or near surface close to the dam, it is easy to work on it there and maintain or replace damaged sections, rather than trying to repair erosion downstream.

[@vic91020]

I suppose that, since the structure is already in that turbulence zone he is talking about (since the hidraulic jump starts ahead of the structure), the effects of the erosion had already stopped being important before that structure.

[@vic91020]

@@Fuyudo Concrete is not that resistant to flow erosion. Cavitation can break it very easily, even metal.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I think engineers would take that into consideration

[@promasreemajumdar1433]

Fluid dynamics is my fav subject and this video just incredibly made me more interested towards this subject. Thanks a lot.

[@tilerman]

Fascinating. thank you. I have a white water centre near me in Nth london and on my visits observing the canoeists i noticed that when exiting a 'rapid' they actually stayed where they were and didn't get pushed downstream. I was puzzled. I found your video and it goes some way to explaining why. Thanks again.

[@jkbecker]

Grady the type of guy to make a 100% overlooked phenomenon interesting and accessible.

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normaly I would skip this video because the thumbnail couldn t get my attention but then I realized its a practical engineering video. Good work👍

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Well, better that than emojis and OMG slapped all over it. I hate that crap.

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This was my favorite subject in civil engineering classes - hydraulics and fluid mechanics.

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Really nice explanation of the jump. I 'm an engineer for NJ and our erosion control program (urban; construction, storm water etc) deals with scour protection all the time. I'm going to forward a link to your video to our soil conservation districts for them to watch!

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Awesome video, actually learned something that they didnt teach me in a fluid dynamics course in engineering school. Keep up the good work.

[@TheReligiousAtheists]

When you see ocean waves coming on shore and then retreating, you can see a 'battle' between the receding and approaching waves, as mentioned in the video. Is that also a hydraulic jump? If yes, which is the tranquil bit and which is the fast bit?

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I thought it was suspicious as well.

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I'm a kayaker and I clicked on this video because it reminded me of rapids and whitewater in rivers and then you explained it and even mentioned how we kayakers use this physical phenomenon to have fun! You explained it perfectly! Great video!

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0:12 Right side: Lvl 1 turbulent flow Left side: Lvl 100 *L A M I N A R   F L O W* _That's how fluid dynamics works_

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I thought rocket science was like 90% fluid dynamics. Moving metal thing through fluid (atmosphere), controlling and directing flow of fuel.

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There's also a lot of material sciences involved.

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From what I can tell, the main difference is the density of the fluid medium. The principles seem the same, they just happen at much lower speeds in water.

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@@mikecurtin9831 water is also essentially incompressible

[@feynstein1004]

Moving stuff through fluids is aerodynamics, fluid dynamics deals with the motion of the fluid itself iirc. But I guess they're close enough.

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And physics

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Great video Grady!! I really love how you talk about technical things and make them so easy to understand. Could you make a video about the dam collapse in Brazil?

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You are the best! Explanations as vivid as these should be mandatory in fluid dynamics classes.

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Great video. I just took my Fluid Mechanics course and am now taking Environmental Engineering course and this video was a great explanation of sub/super critical flow. 👍🏽

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Where is the dam from 1:11? :o Looks amazing, never seen such before

[@CodeKujo]

Huia Dam, perhaps. That's a bellmouth spillway.

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[@jeremy6732]

Awesome topic. Would love to hear more about open flow or just more in-depth of some of the parts quickly covered in this video

[@seneca983]

Does anything special happen when the flow is exactly critical or very close to it?

[@villageblunder4787]

The height of the water becomes very variable.

[@rossbaker8197]

Critical flow is also a very unstable condition that engineers seek to avoid when designing channels. You would ideally design the channel so that either the sub or super critical flow dominates, because as you approach critical flow conditions, the system as a whole becomes increasingly unpredictable

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@@villageblunder4787: Thanks. It'd be interesting to see what that looks like.

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1:14 A nightmare for my over imaginative mind.

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You hit the nail on the head, nice to know I'm not the only one. I think my heart stopped & my mouth opened. What if? What if? What if?

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Come on Georgie. We all float down here.

[@afh7689]

Same here. If you're feeling adventurous, check out this video. It starts out fascinating, but wait for what happens after the cameraman zooms onto the stairwell a couple minutes in: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHu5c5-enNlsoJo It's during a regular test that shuts a valve near the turbine and what you see is holding tank to prevent a water hammer (which can cause damage to the water tunnels) from forming when the water tunnels to the turbine are closed. The uploader works at that dam, so check out his other videos, including down that hole on the right and a device (located up the incline) that is lowered down it to remove/replace the turbine blades.

[@dontbother2071]

What a coincidence! I was just studying about this topic and you posted this video. Thank you Please cover more hydraulic structure and fluid engg :D

[@Zoidberg227]

Glad to have a civvie who can explain open channel flow to this mechie. I've had a few false starts on reading up on hydraulic jump, but never really got anywhere. I've seen the sink example, but it didn't really give great insight like tying in subcritical and supercritical flow. Also, I definitely experienced some low-key anxiety from the shot of the bellmouth spillway with the viewing platform right over the middle. Nothing like rolling a little acrophobia, bathophobia, submechanophobia, and a residual childhood fear of drains all into one! I also feel completely compelled to visit someday ... where is it?

[@foobarbecue]

What a complicated way to say "the water piles up against an obstacle"

[@foobarbecue]

Right. Like I said, it's intuitive and easy. This video tries to make it seem like something surprising. There are a lot of things in physics that I do find surprising. In fluid dynamics, I'd go with the Venturi effect and Mach diamonds. Elsewhere, gyroscopic precession, quantum locking. But this video spent nine breathless minutes saying "water piles up and the slow part ends up on top."

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Neat

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I wish I had you as my physics instructor in college. You explain things extremely well....great series of videos......

[@pandagineer1614]

In rocket science, there is a perfect analog: the shock wave. It also forces flow to go from supercritical to subcritical.

[@studinthemaking]

At 01:15 what dam is that? Never seen it before and I love dams.

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studinthemaking Right?! That's pretty gnarly looking.

[@askquestionstrythings]

Excellent demonstration and discussion, now my sidekick is pondering ideas for other ways to reduce water velocity.

[@williamwallum1236]

I’m looking forward to the flow measurement video. I’m an instrumentation and controls tech and calibrate lots of flow meters for water and wastewater. I deal with mostly flumes and weirs for open channel monitoring. With pipes, I deal with differential pressure transducers on flow tubes or office plates, mag meters, strap on ultrasonic, and doppler. I’m always open to learning more. Thanks for you videos.

[@blipco5]

1:11 You mean like the Oroville Dam?

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Man, i really love this channel. You are the best channel about engineering. A big shout out from Argentina!

[@aidanwansbrough7495]

This is really interesting!! I love how you explain things!

[@TilmanBaumann]

Those hydraulic jump spillways are also really dangerous. Not always a good compromise.

[@richardhorwath7210]

He was referring to dams with dissipation on the downstream side which prevent an abrupt hydraulic jump and prevent a retentive hole from forming to avoid erosion (and avoid a severe drowning hazard)

[@niteshades_promise]

Tilman Baumann yep i almost died in one. glad i have an inflatable boat and not a canoe. see main comment for more info.😩🍻

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We need to get this channel to atleast a million subs A Mechanical engineer

[@tictacbergerac]

Hi! I'm a whitewater kayaker who's tried some playboating in the past. It's super fun. I'm really glad you mentioned it in this video :) Thanks for posting!

[@ekarademir]

Two months of fluid dynamics course packed into 8 mins! Thank you very much for this.

[@buck960]

in munich people surf the eisbach, i guess thats the same principle there

[@renatoigmed]

ok. but when comes HL3?

[@spencertom2821]

watching this video made me thirsty. also watching this video made me realize there is soooooo much water on earth.

[@marchiller1281]

Hello Grady, I came across your great videos for the first time today and I am very excited. Thank you. I particularly like the videos on hydrodynamics. Have you ever thought about making a video on the subject of rapid surfing waves in which the hydrodynamic jump is the core element that we surfers enjoy? I would be very happy to receive a video on this topic.

[@TheLychie]

I love this channel. Wish I knew it when I was a college freshman in civil engineering. Already a senior gonna take hydraulics next semester!! Great introduction for what I'm gonna head into.

[@celivalg]

hydrolic jumps are also super dangerous please mention that somewhere before people drown while trying it out in a kayak

[@markflierl1624]

We have plenty of people. We can afford a few deaths by hydrolic jump.

[@TheKazragore]

If people want to nominate themselves for a Darwin Award, that's their business.

[@celivalg]

TheKazragore yeah well... I wasn’t aware that these were dangerous before a few years ago, they seem not completely friendly, but they are far more deadlier that they actually look... once you get stuck in one, you don’t get out

[@spyone4828]

All kidding aside, the dangers of hydraulic jumps are not immediately obvious, and many of those killed are rescue personnel and even those trying to recover the bodies of rescue personnel.

[@mikecurtin9831]

As I'm seeing it, knowledge of what's happening mitigates most of the danger. Like with rip currents; for scuba divers they're a free ride out. The difference between safe and not is in recognizing and understanding what's going on. Without trying to be judgy, what makes things dangerous is ignorance and stupidity.

[@TheAlbaniaGaming]

Can someone please tell me where 1:12 is??😍😍

[@afh7689]

I want to know too.

[@afh7689]

Lower Huia Dam near Auckland, New Zealand. Found this in another post and verified with a Google search. www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~bwue001/Tramping/LowerHuiaDamCircle/LowerHuiaDamCircle.html

[@russellkanning]

I have seen a couple others too .... usually with some sort of fence to keep people out

[@adamkendall997]

No way, 5:01 is way better. 😍

[@infodiyorbek]

Completely perfect demonstrations !!! Thanks. Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

[@Simon-jb7xx]

I am so glad I found this channel. I've been fascinated by dams, weirs, watermills and basically everything that has something to do with large masses of water since I can remember.

[@Asdayasman]

"Unlike rockets, you might have some intuitions about-" Uh m8 You think I haven't played Kerbal Space Program?

[@leptdre]

Intro music ???

[@mlijah]

Totally amazing used it for my notes cuz I’m trying to study at home thanks a bunch. Made me think about stuff I usually don’t consider

[@MlTGLIED]

Very nice video. That's how I've learned it for many years in hydraulic and coastal Engineering Greetings from Germany

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Very interesting engineering... definitly not duboius! :-)

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I can't see the whole shirt, but methinks Grady is representing the HSV. ThinkerCon swag?

[@MohitAwasthi01]

Nicely done! Would love to see more about flow measurement devices like Parshall Flume

[@jakeobrien809]

excellent explanation of a concept ive been wondering about for some time

[@feynstein1004]

This video would've been sooooooooo helpful during my 6th semester of college 😂

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[@thatonezach]

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[@IstasPumaNevada]

I was hoping to see more experimentation with the hydraulic jump variables in your flume, especially showing the dangers submerged hydraulic jumps can pose to swimmers/kayakers (such as those over low-head dams/spillways can form, as mentioned by others). Still glad to see another video from you.

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This is a great channel, one of my profs gets us to watch some of these. Thanks for the content!

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I'm thinking of being a civil engineer when I'm older but I don't know what qualifications I need Please like this so that he will see it

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Lmao upvoted, dude

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Feynstein 100 “Upvoted” Ah I see you’re a man of culture as well

[@visano.]

How relevant haha

[@aracelirodriguezrodriguez2511]

thanks you veruy much for this contribution, it is a great help to understand better the open channels flow

[@danieltracy4858]

I just wanna lay in your lap and soak up your knowledge and calming voice all night. Very informative video. I never imagined the fluid dynamic of a dam being as complex as you have exposed it to be.

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[@midnightdarkchocolate]

You know it’s that time of the month when your girlfriends flow goes from subcritical to supercritical

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MidNight DarkChocolate LOL

[@feynstein1004]

Perhaps you should make her jump too ;)

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Feynstein 100 Watch out for erosion tho

[@thomasnewton8223]

Tampons are the ultimate hydraulic jump

[@WLxMusic]

Umm, wouldn't that just cause the flow to be a lot heavier? I think supercritical would not be too bad to deal with.

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Your channel is absolutely incredible. Keep up with the fantastic videos!

[@Rattiar]

Hey! I can see the dam on the Mississippi at 5:55 from my house! :) When he talked about the energy dissipation over a dam, I immediately thought of this one, because during snow melt in the spring, the river gets going really fast and the flowing water makes beautiful plumes of white water when it hits the bottom of the spillway.

[@OzrikKnob]

Interestingly, you show us a hydraulic jump, but you never actually define what it is.

[@OzrikKnob]

@Sunyata I know, but here again you also fail to explain what the 'jump' is. If you're going to try and explain something, maybe stand back a bit and look objectively at what you're saying. It's called a 'jump' because the surface level of the water just beyond the flow intersect is HIGHER at the sub-critical flow rate than it is at the critical flow that feeds it. 101

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"Fluid dynamics might sound as comlicated as rocket science..." Boy i wish it was. Rocket science is weak shit when compared to fluid dynamics. There's a reason why theres still a Millenium problem open on the Navier Stokes equation.

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Nice presentation. Now, if I have an informed understanding of the subject. Thanks.

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Your practical demos are amazing and it makes me sad that I pay to go to college and learn so much more from your videos than I do in class, thank you for all you do

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Any non engineer student? 😂

[@joannesberque817]

Awesome video. With simple but deep principles with far reaching real life implications, all explained in a compelling way. Thanks!!! Just one note: gravity waves velocity is how fast pressure pressure disturbance travel --> how fast *hydrostatic* (or nearly hydrostatic) pressure disturbance travel (otherwise: sound speed is how fast pressure disturbance travel).

[@jappperon7012]

Love all your videos, wondering if you'd ever do a video on the "tesla valve". love how fluid dynamics can also be applied to airflow.