Hydraulic Jump Calculator

Water flows out of a constant height reservoir, over a spillway, across a concrete apron, and into a trapezoidal river.
This program calculates the distance, measured from the toe of the spillway, required for the hydraulic jump to occur.
Blue cells are user inputs, green cells are program outputs.
Channel & River Design Parameters
B
S0

20 ft
0.0001 ft/ft

n
z

0.022 ft 1/3
1.5

Mannings roughness coefficient for spillway & river

River side slope, assumes prismatic trapezoidal cross section

3276 cfs
43.0 ft

Flow rate over the spillway

Depth of reservoir

Channel width and river base width

Geometric slope of river

Run

Load
Example

Clear

Operational Parameters
river cross section

Q
y0

Spillway Calculations
y1
Fr1
y2

3.24 ft

Depth of flow at the toe of the spillway

4.9567

Froude number at toe, nominally supercritical (greater than 1.0)

21.13 ft

Required conjugate depth for hydraulic jump at toe of spillway

channel cross section

Tailwater Calculations
yT
FrT
y1T

Tailwater depth, defines y 1T which controls jump location, Lj

19.90 ft
0.3252

Froude number at tailwater, nominally subcritical (less than 1.0)

3.57 ft

Conjugate depth required for hydraulic jump to tailwater depth

Gradually Varied Flow Calculations

spillway details

Lj

45.60 ft

transition to
supercritical flow

Jump location, measured from toe of the spillway

y2 > yT, Jump is forced downstream of the spillway toe.

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x
ft
0.00
2.30
4.59
6.88
9.17
11.46
13.75
16.03
18.32
20.60
22.88
25.16
27.44
29.72
31.99
34.26
36.53
38.80
41.07
43.33
45.60

y
ft
3.24
3.25
3.27
3.29
3.30
3.32
3.34
3.35
3.37
3.39
3.40
3.42
3.44
3.45
3.47
3.49
3.50
3.52
3.54
3.55
3.57

A
ft 2
64.74
65.07
65.40
65.73
66.06
66.40
66.73
67.06
67.39
67.72
68.06
68.39
68.72
69.05
69.38
69.71
70.05
70.38
70.71
71.04
71.37

P
ft
26.47
26.51
26.54
26.57
26.61
26.64
26.67
26.71
26.74
26.77
26.81
26.84
26.87
26.91
26.94
26.97
27.00
27.04
27.07
27.10
27.14

R
ft
2.445
2.455
2.464
2.474
2.483
2.492
2.502
2.511
2.520
2.530
2.539
2.548
2.557
2.566
2.576
2.585
2.594
2.603
2.612
2.621
2.630

Vavg
ft/s
50.60
50.35
50.09
49.84
49.59
49.34
49.09
48.85
48.61
48.37
48.14
47.90
47.67
47.44
47.22
46.99
46.77
46.55
46.33
46.11
45.90

Sf
ft/ft
0.1704
0.1678
0.1652
0.1627
0.1603
0.1579
0.1556
0.1533
0.1510
0.1488
0.1466
0.1445
0.1424
0.1404
0.1384
0.1364
0.1345
0.1326
0.1308
0.1290
0.1272

Fr

toe

y0

4.9567
4.9188
4.8815
4.8446
4.8081
4.7721
4.7366
4.7015
4.6668
4.6326
4.5987
4.5653
4.5323
4.4997
4.4675
4.4356
4.4041
4.3730
4.3423
4.3119
4.2819

y1

hydraulic jump details

jump
GVF
y1

Lj
x

y1T

yT

energy
dissipation

tailwater

Node