waterhammer effect & the pistol shrimp

[joe dirt]

Hello all

Here is an interesting device

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw

which is a clip from this video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2464139837181538044&q=overunity&hl=en


He attributes it to a "waterhammer effect" but doesn,t know
how the mechanism actually works.  I,ve been pondering this
for a while and it looks like what is happenning here is much
like the pistol shrimp and the way it utilizes "cavitation"
of water.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1003_SnappingShrimp.html


Your thoughts?

Dirt

[IronHead]

http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,356.0.html

[joe dirt]

oops already a thread on this subject

my bad