I did a title search for "Water Hammer" in the Mechanical Engineering forum and got 3 hits. Maybe read through those threads to get started, and start a thread of your own in that forum with your questions.
I’m a retired ex physicist I guess. Although I have a first degree in theoretical physics and did post graduate studies ( structural phase transitions in strontium Titanate, I did not pursue a career in physics. However it has always been my first love. Since retiring I’ve been interested in quantum computing and quantum mechanics