Good point, Steve.
Classical texts on aerodynamics show pictures of flow around cylinders, but
I have never seen a picture of airflow around a pair of cylinders broadside.
It would be the same condition as a cross-frame twin cylinder air cooled
motorcycle which are considered OK from a cooling point of view.
I believe there are computer programmes that model fluid flow, but this area
is beyod me.
Does anybody out there know more?
73
end
Barry Kirkwood PhD ZL1DD
Signal Hill Homestay
66 Cory Road
Palm Beach
Waiheke Island 1240
NEW ZEALAND
www.waiheke.co.nz/signal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Moore <wd0ct@networksplus.net>
To: Barry Kirkwood <bjk@ihug.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] Thar she blows
> Hi everybody,
>
> I presume someone has done the smoke flow test on cross flow cooled tubes.
> Maybe even the Heath engineers? Does this test show the smoke flow [ and
> thus the airflow] to truly envelope both sides of the tubes?
>
> 73, Steve wd0ct
>
>
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