satanicoo - this forum and others like it (overclockers.com, overclockers.com.au, overclockers.com.nz) have a FEAST of information to get you in the right mindset for designing waterblocks.
You also have to keep up, as annoying network engineers from Melbourne have a nasty habit of turning up and changing the paradigm every once in a while.
However, the design of waterblocks, not too suprisingly, is a graft of thermo-dynamics and hydro-dynamics. So, how heat moves through solids, how liquid moves through solids, plus the science behind the cooling effect of a liquid passing a solid.
Lots of reading there, and hydro-dynamics is a black art in an age of science to the masses.
In the end, even the greats take a basic design, and tweak it through trial and error.
The washing-up-coffee-cup design is going through this process now. You make two, you compare and you "theorise" why differences in design effect differences in performance. You make a third to prove your theory. Rinse. Repeat. However, especially at the bleeding edge, everything impacts on everything, and then you might just get lucky with certain measurements. Especially when you have mere-mortal testing equipment such as a single pump and motherboard diode for temperatures....
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