Return-Path: Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 854433 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:04:37 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.165; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.70]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D506370541 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23678-02-47 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (70-97-237-121.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [70.97.237.121]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCE83705BA for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4251817B.3020108@frontiernet.net> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:03:39 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: A lot to learn References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0513-2, 04/01/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Ed Anderson wrote:
Ok, Jim
 
I agree that the theory part gets out of hand at times (my fault).  Theory only counts if it works in practice {:>).  However, I think these question naturally arise when we start talking about some of this stuff - the old "how it do that".
Exactly.  But that is what I was referring to loosely as qualitative analysis.  IIRC, most of the books measure the results in some "standard" radiator in a wind tunnel and empirically create a "constant" that will get you in the ballpark for non-standard stuff.  Sadly, we are in a very empirical environment.
 
<>The only part  that really counted was understanding what was necessary to keep air flow from separating from the walls in a diffuser. If you eliminate that problem you have done probably 90% of what you can do to achieve optimum diffuser performance (my opinion of course).  So you can have otherwise adequate core surface and volume, but if you have a poor duct design with lots of flow separation and eddies then your system may fail to adequately cool.
Exactly.  And I'm suggesting that since the downstream side of heat exchanger is pretty much a blunt instrument, pressure drop across the exchanger tells you what you need to know about the upstream side - how well it's working - and how much you have to improve your diffuser.

Unless one is bent on reinventing the wheel ... Jim S.
 
Ed A
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Sower
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: A lot to learn

Is it possible we're dismissing some important factors getting a little out of our depth here?  Dynamic pressure in the cores and across the cores would seem to be so highly dependent on surface friction and core density and passage size as to be impossible to estimate, much less quantify accurately.

If the purpose of the plenum is pressure recovery (converting dynamic pressure into static pressure) and it's the static pressure drop that drives the mass of air through the radiator core, why not just forget about the molecular, boundary layer and core passage size considerations for the moment since we can't quantify any of that anyway.  As Ed has stated so many times in so many ways, a good inlet/plenum design does a better job of converting dynamic pressure to static pressure than a bad one, and he's found out pretty much what he has to do to make a bad one good. 

If we measure static pressure at the forward and aft face of the radiator and we've got the pressure drop across the core.  Period.  We know how close we are to Ed's plenum.  Then adapt the stuff that Ed has pioneered for us to make it better  An Airspeed indicator I find is handier and more accurate than a water manometer.  The Pitot connection on the upwind side and the Static connection on the downwind side should give me upwards of 100, maybe 120 kias drop across the radiator at cruise.  More is better.  If I don't have sufficient pressure drop across the radiator, I probably need to improve my intake and plenum to get rid of the eddies Ed alludes to.  That is what I've got the most influence over.  If I don't get enough pressure recovery, I study Ed's findings and approach implement them better. 

I think all this molecular stuff is more appropriate to the ACRE list where nothing ever really has to fly.  This list (to me) is the guys who actually FLY.  A sound qualitative analysis of the issues involved (which we already have) will lead me to a workable solution.  That is very nice since an acceptably accurate quantitative analysis is not possible.  To that end (to coin a phrase) I don't have to know how it works or why it works, I only have to know what I have to do to MAKE it work.  And I have been blessed that Ed has found out most of this.

Are we PVORT. again? ... Jim S.


David Carter wrote:
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:07 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: A lot to learn ! Re: Cooling -Learned a lot


  
Charlie E wrote:

At the risk of embarrassing myself with a display of misunderstanding
the physics of it all, should your pressure sensors be measuring dynamic
pressure or static? Seems like I remember Tracy's measurement pics
having foam chunks over the pressure sensors to remove the dynamic
component of the pressure measurement. I couldn't remember if your setup
has that (& I really don't know if it should, either).

Charlie
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