George Lendich wrote:

Hi Paul...

I might be interested in doing some reverse engineering on the castings.
Another way you could increase cooling would be to have fins on the

inside

water jacket area. This would increase the surface area for heat

dissipation.

 Solid state devices use this tech...as long as we are working on high
density power to weight ratio.

Rick Stitt

I think the fins on the inside are a very good idea.
As I mentioned, building a thermodynamics test rig to test this is
not all that hard.

snip....

Paul Lamar

Paul and Rick,

I was just thinking of this the other day,  and as much as I would like
to think 'great minds think alike' I couldn't hold a candle to you blokes.

But what I also thought was could these fins cause restrictions to the flow
of coolant ie. is the flow a straight flow or does the flow have a spiral
flow pattern, are there places where the flows swirls and exits to an
area of least resistance. Could these fins restrict the natural flow
pattern.
I think your right Paul, only a physical test will reveal an outcome.

George (down under)

 
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