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Unread 02-02-2003, 11:13 PM   #22
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Originally posted by g.l.amour
i do'nt see the point letting it spiral outside the cpu die area. wouldn't that just be obstructing flow without a reason? it could be that u r thinking pelts though.

i think bigben's radius would be a little little bit more effective


beautiful design anyways.
Very eye-catching indeed.

Spiraling may not be completely useless. If you look at the flow graphs for Radius, you'll see a fast flow at the bottom of the channel; in a spiraling design, this flow might rotate along the bottom of the channel.

If it does rotate, it will have to flow extremely fast in order for it to make a performance difference though. I don't believe that there's a pump out there that can do this (within reason). The channel flow must reach Reynolds 2'000 to 4'000 (turbulent flow), at which point the rotating effect might be dissipated...dunno.

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