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Is that you Roy? I couldn’t understand your description here. Sorry if I’m being being slow. Steve Izett > On 23 Nov 2020, at 11:15 pm, Ernest Christley echristley@att.net <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote: > > Just FYI, I had a HVAC engineer help me with my installation. One of the things I learned is that blowing "into" a heat exchanger will create a host of errors, the most obvious being that the blower tends to blow stronger in the middle of the stream than at the extremities. To eliminate these errors, put the head of the blower in a box at the rear of the heat exchanger. Cardboard is fine for the box. Stick the nozzle through a hole in the box so that it blows out. The blower is now dropping the pressure in the box. For good measure, shape the box to simulate what the air would encounter leaving the heat exchanger. > > > > On Friday, November 20, 2020, 5:22:47 PM EST, Stephen Izett stephen.izett@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote: > > > Hi Roy > > Here is a photo of our Mocal 44 row oil cooler with diffuser. A K&M Streamline into a wedge. > Not sure of the dimensions of hand. The Mocal web site will have specs so you could get a rough idea of size. > I tested this one recently with a leaf blower approximating 100 knot air flow and in that test it was very even. > > Having said that, I tested our water radiator wedge diffuser when I built it years ago and had it reasonably even > measuring pressures across the exit face, but now instrumenting it in flight its flow is vastly uneven. > > I have found that the flow is dependant not only on getting the diffuser shape right according to the various papers (eg. K&W, London, Oblique Flow Diffusers - Streamline ) > But importantly the environment it ends up in. The papers share data for ideal conditions with for example unobstructed exit air paths. > My thoughts now are that this has a significant impact on the performance and therefore the advantage of instrumenting in flight and reshaping for actual conditions. > > The data I collected yesterday of our H2O diffuser reveals that the air flow in various points across the face are very different. > Simplified, if I average the pressures at the five points I measured, then comparatively the back is up 20%, the centre up 25% and the front down 60% from that average figure. > I’m figuring a 20% difference is probably OK, but my front to back/middle difference of ~80% down in the front top of that radiator may hold significant room for improvement. > Further, my data suggests that as IAS rises those differences are amplified. > So I am now targeting the modifications for our worst case conditions of WOT sea level ~200hp and initial climb numbers of 115KIAS. > > Cheers. > > Steve Izett > > <IMG_1424.jpeg><IMG_1416.jpeg> > >> On 21 Nov 2020, at 3:37 am, ROY GLENN rglenn14@sbcglobal.net <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote: >> >> Could some ne post a photo of their wedge shape and dimensions. >> Thanks Roy >> >> -- >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >> Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html > > <IMG_1416.jpeg><IMG_1424.jpeg>-- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html