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SimpleCooling
Example: simple cooling circuit
1st test example: SimpleCooling
A prescribed heat source dissipates its heat through a thermal conductor to a coolant flow. The coolant flow is taken from an ambient and driven by a pump with prescribed mass flow.
Results:
| output |
explanation |
formula |
actual steady-state value |
| dTSource |
Source over Ambient |
dtCoolant + dtToPipe |
20 K |
| dTtoPipe |
Source over Coolant |
Losses / ThermalConductor.G |
10 K |
| dTCoolant |
Coolant's temperature increase |
Losses * cp * massFlow |
10 K |
| Name | Type | Default Value | Description |
| medium | Medium | FluidHeatFlow.Media.Medium() | Cooling medium |
| TAmb | Temperature | 293.15 | Ambient temperature |