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About the Mechanism of Geyser Eruption

Geophysics 2012-04-10 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Essentially new physical mechanism of geyser eruption based on instability in "water-vapor" system is proposed. Necessary and sufficient conditions of eruptions are received. For group of Kamchatka geysers a good accordance of theoretical model with empirical observations is shown.

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@article{arxiv.1204.1560,
  title  = {About the Mechanism of Geyser Eruption},
  author = {Andrei Nechayev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1560},
  year   = {2012}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures