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Unread 04-19-2003, 04:43 PM   #116
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Originally posted by theetruscan
I thought it would be somewhere between parabolic and cubic. Doesn't the "flow resistance" Rf increase as Q increases? If so, it wouldn't be parabolic, would it? I could be totally off base here, but I am curious enough to ask.
It's just some messy nomenclature on Since87's part. The dp is really the flow resistance for the component, as a function of the flow. The term he's calling the flow resistance, Rf is really a constant, needed to shape the parabola.
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