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bobo5195 · 11-11-2007, 09:52 AM

That’s interesting and what I figured. I figured If I was to make something I would just do it and let the data catch up although TIM stuff is as always suck it and see. I think that at least something that calculates something gives you a feeling for what’s going on, even if the numbers are all balls. The n umbers can be changed easily anyway. Besides it’s a nice intellectual exercise.

I would add that the textbook (at least the mech eng / motorsports way) is useful that it just says that radiator performance is X regardless of flow etc. This is probably not the case in real life as flow rate does effect heat transfer performance. It never comes up in mech eng as watercooling as rather big relative changes in input characteristics for similar systems. As with the all engineering once you look at what the equations imply its all wrong anyway.

I work in central London (a few minutes from Piccadilly Circus). With regularish trips to Cardiff.

11-11-2007, 09:52 AM	#6
bobo5195 Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk Posts: 400	Re: How do you calculate how a rad performs based on the data? That’s interesting and what I figured. I figured If I was to make something I would just do it and let the data catch up although TIM stuff is as always suck it and see. I think that at least something that calculates something gives you a feeling for what’s going on, even if the numbers are all balls. The n umbers can be changed easily anyway. Besides it’s a nice intellectual exercise. I would add that the textbook (at least the mech eng / motorsports way) is useful that it just says that radiator performance is X regardless of flow etc. This is probably not the case in real life as flow rate does effect heat transfer performance. It never comes up in mech eng as watercooling as rather big relative changes in input characteristics for similar systems. As with the all engineering once you look at what the equations imply its all wrong anyway. I work in central London (a few minutes from Piccadilly Circus). With regularish trips to Cardiff.