Return-Path: Received: from mail.theofficenet.com ([65.166.240.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with SMTP id 813812 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:22:47 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=65.166.240.5; envelope-from=jackoford@theofficenet.com Received: (qmail 29043 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2005 16:18:47 -0000 Received: from dpc691941229.direcpc.com (HELO jack) (69.19.41.229) by mail.theofficenet.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 16:18:47 -0000 Message-ID: <00b001c52e31$ecf2fdb0$0200a8c0@jack> From: "Jack Ford" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: BMW and EWP Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:20:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Extending the logic- when flow is zero, cooling is infinite. :o) (?) Jack Ford ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bulent Aliev" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 8:10 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: BMW and EWP > Jim, by the same reasoning, when you are hot and sweaty in front of your fan > at home: The slower the fan turns, the colder you get since the air has more > time to pick up heat from your body? :) > Buly > > > > > I had looked at it as: > > High Flow - engine can't heat the water as much as it would if the flow > > were slower and there was more time to heat the water, resulting in less > > temp rise in water across engine and more uniform temps in the block. > > Water emerges from block not much hotter than it went in. Water doesn't > > stay in the radiator long enough to be exposed to air flow long enough > > to be cooled very much. Good news: it doesn't *have* to be cooled much > > - it's not all that hot. > > Low Flow - coolant spends more time in engine and gets hotter. Greater > > dT across engine block, coolant hotter exiting engine and entering > > radiator. Radiator has to draw more heat out of the coolant to get it > > back to acceptable block entry temp, but has more time to do it on > > account of lower flow. > > What I hadn't seen, is how apparently wide a range of flows would > > produce acceptable results. I suppose a better radiator (more flue > > area, better air flow, etc. - better cooling per in^3) would reduce the > > volume requirement. Lower limit on flow would seem to be that flow at > > which the temperature gradient across the engine becomes unacceptable. > > Thanks for the details ... Jim S. > > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >