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Originally posted by sunblade
Dunno if this has been discussed, but what if the inlet(s)/outlets were swapped. Water could leave directly above the core, and the water entering from both sides could swirl over the core and up the outlet. It would be like an upside down drain?
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Actually, we did cover it. Maskedgeek considered that approach, but the centripedal forces would induce more restriction, and the swirl wouldn't come into effect anyways.
Airspirit, your concept is good, but your application is just not there. In a bucket, the water that stands still, waiting to exit (for quite some time, I might add) will have a circular motion induced. In a waterblock however, with 100 gallons-per-hour flow rates, the water isn't there long enough to be carried into a swirl: at best, it won't head for the exits in a perfectly straight line, but that's about it.
In order to achieve a multiple turn swirl in a block, you're going to have to force the water to go that way, and that means a channel, and that means a spiral block...