Looped fountain - Possible ?
- Simulator recommendations ?
Using an old version of the powder-toy simulator, I had no success with this incredibly simple design, in the image below.
Obviously I'm just trying to use lots of water pressure, from the depth of the big tank, to loop the water.
However, if you look closely, you'll see I also tried to widen the exit nozzle at the top, to try and decrease the 'surface-tension' that might prevent the water from leaving the nozzle. ( even though I'm more than sure that this old version of the powder-toy simulator I use does not simulate surface tension at all ) .
I read somewhere that the reason 'Robert Boyle's Flask' (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boyle%27sSelfFlowingFlask.png ) won't work is because of the surface-tension at the nozzle of the end of the hose feeding water back into the top of the flask.
However, the wikipedia page for Robert Boyle (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle ) says it won't loop because
"a siphon requires its "output" to be lower than the "input".
It seems this old version of the powder-toy simulator I use is very bad or incapable of simulating water pressure in the tank, which may be why it does not work.
If this would work, then hydroelectric-dams could have pipes to loop the water back into the dam above, or, you could run pipes from the depths of the ocean up to the surface to spin generators.
ANYONE HAVE ANY SIMULATOR RECOMMENDATIONS, ONES WITH 'GOOD' "LIQUID - WATER - PRESSURE" SIMULATION. HOPEFULLY ONLINE / IN-BROWSER SIMULATION, RATHER THAN INSTALLATION REQUIRED SOFTWARE .
