At 05:41 PM 7/25/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Graeme,
>
>I think I figured out your 'swill pot' concept. ...
>
>Steve Laifman
Steve,
On the other hand, IMHO your explanation sounds way too simple for
the current generation of Formula One cars. Maybe someone simply left out
the "r" and the correct spelling is "swirl"? Now that could sound much more
like the initial explanation given by Graeme as I remember it from last
week. Picture this: The water/gas mixture enters the tank tangentially, is
mechanically kept in a helical motion with possible increasing or decreasing
tangential velocity, whereby the gas bubbles tend to drift to the center due
to lower density and centrifucal acceleration. The top center of this
chamber is somehow vented to remove the gas build up and the now de-gassed
coolant returns to the system for another pass. "That" sounds a lot more
like todays Formula One high tech stuff, but of course I could be dead wrong.
Tom Hall, modtiger@engravers.com
STOA (Sunbeam Tiger Owners Association)
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