Surface radiators for water cooled engines

Surface Area? A standard auto styled radiator has a tremendous serface area
packed into a very small and light package. The air is forced through that
surface area with contact normally on two surfaces as it passes. To obtain the
same surface area on a single sided flat plain would take much more area than
is available on the underside of the cowling. You might be able to get enough
area by using the whole underside of the fuselage but you still don't have the
same type of contact.

Bob Reed
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Bravo Bob, but no matter how you say it...
there are dreamers and wannabees that just can't let go
no matter what. Evidently, living without the Easter Bunny,
Santa Claus and the Surface Radiator Fairy is unthinkable.

Barnyard BOb -- stranger than fiction

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Surface Area? A standard auto styled radiator has a tremendous serface area
packed into a very small and light package. The air is forced through that
surface area with contact normally on two surfaces as it passes. To obtain
the
same surface area on a single sided flat plain would take much more area
than
is available on the underside of the cowling. You might be able to get
enough
area by using the whole underside of the fuselage but you still don't have
the
same type of contact.

Bob Reed
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Bravo Bob, but no matter how you say it...
there are dreamers and wannabees that just can't let go
no matter what. Evidently, living without the Easter Bunny,
Santa Claus and the Surface Radiator Fairy is unthinkable.

Barnyard BOb -- stranger than fiction


I understand the dreamers and wannabees but don't understand wanting to
reinvent the wheel. The idea of surface cooling is not a bad idea until you
get to looking at the details of what has already been tried and why is was not
a success. Many of the current advances in all areas is being achieved by
using old ideas with some of the modern materials and methods. If there was
some new materials available which could make this a plausable concept then
more power to them, it might work.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

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