Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #4166
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Intake manifold
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:14:42 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Ed Anderson wrote:
 
 

    Hm... I still don't see the difference from flowing water that
    mysteriously won't split evenly at the Y.


Because the water wasn't splitting at a Y. It is more like this:


          ----------RAD1----------
         /                        \
---------                          ------------------
         \                        /
          ---------RAD2-----------


If the flow resistance aren't equal, one radiator will absorb flow until it's resistance equals the other.

In the case of the intakes, the air gets sucked in and then dissappears. If air didn't flow down the second tube, there'd be a vacuum.

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