Glossary · term
Hydraulic head
Waves & Fluids
- Aliases
- head gradient, metres of head
- Domain
- Waves & Fluids
Definition
The height of a column of water that would produce a given pressure — the energy of water per unit weight, in metres. Groundwater flows down the head gradient; a dam's power is head times flow.
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