Re: [Vo]:Will tests surface mounted thermocouples on pipe

[peter . heckert]

 


----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
An:      vortex-l@eskimo.com
Datum:   08.12.2011 17:00
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Will tests surface mounted thermocouples on pipe

> peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote:
> 
> > How can you say this is incorrect? Do you know everything, great master?
> I can say that because Houkes knows what he is doing, other experts 
> agree with him, and it has been my experience that the water temperature 
> in a pipe dominates the surface temperature even when there is another 
> pipe or hot body nearby. As for example, in a calorimeter where the 
> inlet and outlet sensors are close, and both under insulation. Or in the 
> tests I did last night. Air temperature and heat conducted by the pipe 
> do not play much of a role.
> 
> 
> > There is symmetry, and so the temperature distribution must be
> symmetrical.
> > This is EASY to see.
> 
> Evidently not.
> 
If your experts dont see this simple fact, then they are not experts but buggy 
calculation machines.
I have calculated many linear networks, by hand, 35 years ago, when computers 
could not do this.
I know how to simplify a linear network.

best, Peter