Re: [Phys-l] Entrainment of oil in Hurricane?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Is not a tornado a miniature or very compact hurricane?  Both of their eyes are low p.

bc


On 2010, Jun 25, , at 15:39, John Clement wrote:

> But tornados also have high pressure which creates huge wind velocities.  So
> while suction (removal of pressure forces) will not do, air resistance can
> work quite well to elevate cows to great heights, and water is even easier
> when dispersed into droplets.
>
> There is even a well known case of a whole occupied house going aloft along
> with an old lady on a bicycle ;}
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > Ah yes, I thought this might be the unspoken concern. It's a physics
> > thing - that water cannot be pumped up more than 33 feet in a suction
> > pump.   The engineer's way of suction-pumping water up more than twice
> > that Torricellian limit, is by adjusting the water-density that the pump
> > has to deal with.
>
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