Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by londons_explore 1371 days ago
The wire is only just laminar flow... I found a random PC fan and assumed a 1mm wire diameter, 2.3m/s airflow, and the reynolds number comes out at 36.

That tells me if you were to get a 1000x really powerful fan, then the grille would start giving turbulent flow, and might no longer perform the best.

Page with lots of details: http://labman.phys.utk.edu/phys221core/modules/m8/turbulence....

1 comments

This is 10 years ago article, coolers tech changed a lot since that.

I even remember, when in mac clones used ultra-high-speed coolers, which now used only in rack devices.

And yes, ultra-high-speed coolers, has much higher speed and make turbulence.