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Originally Posted by bobo5195
I have a crazy idea brewing that heat pipes might effect performance by lowering the fourier time (time taken for heat to reach one point from another) which will effect small scale changes.
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I am wondering how you would justify the statement regarding heatpipes lowering the fourier time? A better question might be, what points are you referring to when you say "one point form another?" From the base to the cooling fins? I already know(or think I know) the principals behind and functioning of heatpipes.
I am wondering because I haven't taken thermo yet, only Uni. level Chem. and Phys. 1 and 2.
I did some quick searches and didn't come up with much explanation for "fourier time" other than it is named after Joseph Fourier and that there is a linear transform used to deconstruct periodic functions and a series named after Fourier as well.