In a message dated 10/20/2007 8:11:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rotary.thjakits@gmail.com writes:
Although "radius" will get you most already, I found the "resonance"-fog
interesting.
All but the ellipse form will have a cloud of mixture outside the
bellmouth.
The Ellipse has only a very shallow cushion right on the bellmouth.
Interesting if you fire your injectors directly into the
bellmouth....
TJ
If the horn is attached to a carburetor and the engine is at one of several
RPM that generates the standing wave. It is common to see this on a dyno. And is
more likely on piston engines, with the long time out between induction
events. When the horns are inside a plenum, that alters the tune, and the
fuel fog problem is moved to a different RPM, and may be less profound. In
carbureted engines the plenum should be stout enough to withstand an
explosion from a fuel air mixture that may be close to an ideal ratio.
Notice that in street cars those things are thick walled castings and a bit
heavy, even in injected engines.
Lynn E. Hanover