This image represents a circular hydraulic jump produced by the impact of a 0.9 mm wide water jet on a Plexiglas disk. The flow rate is 2.1 mL/s. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: ...

In the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci first described a fascinating phenomenon involving water that later became known as the hydraulic jump. And a mere five centuries later, scientists have finally ...

Hydraulic jumps represent a critical phenomenon in open channel flows, occurring when rapidly moving water abruptly transitions from a high-velocity, shallow regime to a slower, deeper state. This ...

Scientists have provided new insights into how intense thunderstorms drive the injection of water vapor from the troposphere — the atmospheric layer closest to Earth’s surface — to the stratosphere.