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Unread 06-23-2004, 03:49 AM   #203
Cathar
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Originally Posted by Les
So, we will see some fumbling numbers eventually.
Excellent, look forward to playing with them.
If you're asking for a graph of the relationship between viscosity and performance drop, I don't have one.

With water, the turbulence enhancement appears to offer around a 20% improvement in h over the closest equivalent mathematical model. That 20% is mostly emperically determined.

I roughly predict that the 5x more viscous liquid would roughly reduce that gain over the standard model to around 5-8% above what the standard model would predict for h for that level of viscosity.

Again, not plotted. Am more interested in emperical evidence and formulating rough theory, than attempting to assume that I have a hard theory that works.
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