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I think that the electrical data is about right, otherwise I could not have compared the convective and radiated power with the electrical power.
If I do a recalculation based on assumed inflated temperatures, then I convert…

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My feeling (For what it is worth) is otherwise, so let's wait for the recalculation and see who was right

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The simulation I did was on a model of the MFMP dogbone. (without rods)

The remark that the simulated temperatures where near the Lugano ones must be interpreted as that they where much closer to the Lugano ones then those of…

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What's important is that if they where inflated, what then the real input power must have been.
So the next thing for me to work on is making a spread sheet based on inflated temperatures and calculate what in that case the…

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I find it a pitty that the MFMP did not cross check their measurements by calculating the convective and radiated thermal power and compare it with their electrical power setting.
If you do that you will see that the convective…

Lugano dummy run recalculated - Final




The close agreement between applied electrical power and the confected and radiated thermal power makes it unlikely that the reported temperatures where inflated






Presented here is the, what I believe final,…

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For a bare tube the convective power can be calculated as :

Q = h x At x (Ts - Ta)

---------h--------Convective heat transfer coefficient
---------Q--------The power
---------At-------The area of the tube

---------Ts-------…

Lugano ECAT convection correction

Due to the close spacing of the ribs of the Lugano ECAT, the convective heat transfer of the ribs is less effective. Thus there needs to be applied a correction to the calculated convective heat transfer of the ribs.
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Simulating convection with CFD - update 2

In my previous post I wrote :

Next step now is to do some additional simulations to gain more insight on the effect of using higher levels of meshes (smaller mesh sizes) instead of using a boundery layer. This…

Simulating convection with CFD - update 1

As a first approach to simulating natural convection for a ribbed tube I started with simulating convection of a bare tube.
I used the bare tube case since calculating natural convection for a bare tube is a…

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Hedy Lamarr!

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That would indeed be a possible counter measure
However radar antenna's and/or related waveguides tend to be tuned to the radar frequency, so that limits the frequency span which you can use.
Also current processor power likely (But…

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While I agree often with your technically insights, I think this time your comment are made too rash

There are a lot western defense technology journals where you can find information on the SU57
If you had read them you would know…

Much more important then my simulations is that You and Russ continue to make progress.
Hope to see that reported on the atom-ecology thread when I am away !

Simulating convection with CFD

Since my last post I have been spending time on how to simulate with my CFD software natural convection. There are two major parts which determine a correct outcome of a CFD simulation.
These are :

1. Quality of the…

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Some "smart" people would now conclude that PARA and Alan have the same TC loggers.

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Alan,

May I disagree ?

Some thermocouple circuits have a high ohmic pull-up resistor, which when the thermocouple gets broken, cause a high voltage at the input. (We used 10 MegaOhm resistors)
This will result in a high…

Thinking about the Dog Bone photo had me going back into my older test files... such hard work; burnt down nearly all of them...