Pardon my ignorance, but why would you use such high pressure differentials to flow a head ? Wouldn't just a few inches of water be more similar to actual conditions ? Seems like you'd want the valve
Thanks, Jack, Ron & others who responded. 28" still seems high to me, after all that's roughly 1/10 of the total pressure you have to stuff air into the cylinders, and there's still the drop through
28" of water is one psi. For fully developed tubulent flow, the flow is proportional to the square root of the pressure drop, so it is easy to convert from one pressure drop to another.
But isn't the whole idea to develop laminar flow, not turbulent? At the point where it changes, there should be a fairly big discontinuity in flow rate, no? Avoiding turbulence is the whole reason w
Why would you want to maintain laminar flow on a flowbench? So you could avoid seeing what the problems are? In practical terms, most flowbenches don't flow enough with heads that have reasonably lar
But isn't the whole idea to develop laminar flow, not turbulent? At the point where it changes, there should be a fairly big discontinuity in flow rate, no? Avoiding turbulence is the whole reason we
You're not really missing anything. It's a mental picture issue. We view these systems as having smooth flows when in reality everything that's going on in an engine is violent and fast. Our mental p
Ok, Thanks Bill, that was the essential piece that I was overlooking. Is that why SuperFlow says 25" is typical ? http://www.superflow.com/support/support-flowbench-works-how.htm <snip> I was going
Never did it, but did some drawings long ago of a small motor driven system for the inelt valve to simulate the action on the port flow as the valve is operating. Lost a lot of interest I think when
They do instrument the intake tracts, Ferrari had a really neat article on their F1 computer stuff on the Ferrari Owners site. They have instrumented the dickens out of these engines. Thing is that a
Without getting into a technical discussion about Reynolds number, etc., to achieve laminar flow would require a drammatic reduction in the flow velocity and/or the diameter of the port.. Larry Young