At 09:58 PM 4/25/2010, Tom Hargrave wrote: >Your logic is flawed - you are considering instantaneous and not continuous >heat transfer. The coolant is circulating and heat is being continuously >pulled off through the radiator. I'll have to think about that for a bit. My intuition says that that's a steady-state condition and can be more-or-less ignored for the current situation. And the radiator gets less efficient as the coolant temperature gets lower. Yrs, David |
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