It has been said that in 2014 cooling will be a significant factor in cars' competitiveness and reliability.
The regulations are strict (banning graphene and so on), but maybe we can discuss points such as
transmittance enhancement with surface treatment
3dprinted radiators (Boeing issued a patent in 2011 abot this)
and the ever-present Meredith effect (even if there are already several threads about that...)
3d printer radiators.. interesting. As in metal SLS? I'm curious what the advantage would be there, and whether surface finish would have any effect on cooling.
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shelly wrote:It has been said that in 2014 cooling will be a significant factor in cars' competitiveness and reliability.
...... maybe we can discuss points such as
..... the ever-present Meredith effect (even if there are already several threads about that...)
being related to dynamic pressure ie the square of the vehicle speed .....
the 'Meredith effect' could surely not be significantly present at F1 speeds ?
@JT: yes I was thinking about sls - maybe youcan have patterns on the surface that are not machinable conventionally.
@tommycookers: trying to achieve thrust from rrad is a question that pops out here very often, I hope that in this thread we can clarify what's doable and what's not.
Downforce wrote:What if they made radiator from synthetic diamond? Make a ceramic mold using 3 d printing technology, and then make a radiator from synthetic diamond?
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I know that this is not so complex as a radiator, but maybe...
I don't think Meredith is coming to visit F1 any time soon.
A sidepod with an opening of 900cm2, at 200Km/h and taking Rho=1.2Kg/m3 takes in 6Kg of air each second. If you discard compressibility (and the associated changes in temperature), the maximum Delta T to be had from the radiator is from 293K to 373K. With ideal gases, DeltaT=DeltaV (volume) which will also equal the DeltaV (air speed). That would accelerate those 6 Kg of air (per pod) to 255Km/h. this is being generous and assuming a large Delta T for the air and completely unimpeded flow.
I have a hard time getting more than 1HP from those numbers, and in reality I suppose that the air slows down, overall, in the sidepods, even including the effect of the exhaust pipes, or we would see the sidepod exits blowing things.
I think we can concentrate on how to best reject heat with minimum drag rather than playing with drag recovery.
nacho wrote:Any use in synthetic diamond coating for radiatora?
Unlikely. It would be impractically expensive to coat the surface area of an entire radiator, and you're still limited by the conductivity of the underlying aluminum. I don't even know if you can coat aluminum.
