Correlation between Fan Blade Diameter and Heat Dissipation Area of a Radiator
Keywords:
Cooling system, Fan blade, radiator, heat dissipationAbstract
In any cooling system of a motor vehicle increase in Fan blade leads to increase in Heat dissipation area of radiator and vice versa. This study examined the effect of Fan blade diameter on the heat dissipation area of radiator and FORTRAN computer code was developed for computation of fan blade diameter corresponding to heat dissipation area of radiator. Aided by the developed software, the effect of increasing fan blade diameter on heat dissipation area of radiator is investigated. Results obtained for case studies examined at varying the depth of radiator, showed that Heat dissipation area of radiator increases with Fan blade diameter. The numerical results were processed with the EXCEL package, which yield a relationship of the form; ( ) Dbl A 70.71 4 hrad = , where a is real characteristic values of a particular problem.
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