[mwolfman]

Originally Posted by Cathar

<0.1mm channels clog very easily despite best efforts

Since your block isn’t "normal", have you tested it to see what happens if you use a liquid with a lower viscosity, like alcohol?
The same goes for pumping power, since your block is restrictive, what gains do you get for mounting two pumps in series?

Originally Posted by Cathar

Perhaps a spinning disc with a scimitar slit pattern located above the jet intakes providing a constant pressure drop resistance upstream to the pump, but giving localised pulsating flow input into the jets would be a way to implement such?

I see what you mean, however the cost in pump pressure can be immense unless you just want to block 10 % of the jets or so. The problem is to make the disk spinning in a way that it don’t wobble or begins to “hum”…
In theory this will help move the water throw the narrow channels (the same method is used for making of steel wires, it helps the deformations process to go faster, about 20kHz pulses)

Originally Posted by bobo5195

We're engineers dont bring philosopy into this

Here I have to disagree; we do so, due to the fact that we can’t see what is actually happening in the block.
I've done loads of simulations that should contradict that, however my workstation needs about 125 GB more ram to go as close as I want and even then I'm far from the real truth in a block as the Storm (the resolution has to be extremely high compared to normal fluid calculations).