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About the Mechanism of Geyser Eruption

2012/04/06 by Andrei Nechayev, Nechayev, Andrei
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Geophysics (physics.geo-ph) #physics.flu-dyn #physics.geo-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.1560

13 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2012/04/06 · openalex publication_date 2012/04/06 · arxiv updated 2012/04/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

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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