[Geysers] Taylor bubble thanks

[Steve Krause]

I'm hardly a hydrodynamics expert, but I would think that total storage 
volume in the system is the other critical factor.

A chamber stores that volume close by. But a long simple tube with 
multiple feeders would provide a similar sort of effect - i.e. once the 
system empties some of itself, the pressure relieves enough that the 
lower water begins to flash to steam as well. This might explain the 
water phase/steam phase system.

Or I could be applying far too simplistic an explanation as well.

SRK

TSBryan at aol.com wrote:

> Thanks to the _many_ people who responded about Taylor bubbles. So I 
> see how an eruption can take place in a simple tube. But can a 
> sustained (that is, duration of minutes) occur without a chamber of 
> some sort? I cannot see how.
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> Thanks again.
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> Scott Bryan
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