Post by coastalrocketeer on Jan 10, 2018 15:09:48 GMT -8
I am trying to elucidate and clarify in my mind rules and related information that can help us all better understand and discuss gas flow in the dynamic system that is a rocket stove, kiln, or furnace.
I have posted the ideas as they have come to me in various places and I will be posting them here for people to read, examine and critique based on, or confirm congruity with, their own knowledge and experience.
Some of them I know are true because they are well known and evidenced by much past discussion, research, and scientific agreement, and some are my ideas about gas flow that have coalesced from reading these forums and other sources in researching the function and design of rocket stoves and mass heaters.
This thread is here for discussing and evaluating the validity of my own ideas and yours as well, so feel free to chime in with your own ideas, opinions, and intuition, about gas flow dynamos, as well as related scientific research and any other sources of information on the subject.
I am looking for help in creating a resource on gas flow dynamics that can be used to more intelligently create novel designs of both special case and common applications for heat storage and distribution, and giving more of us a more intuitive understanding of the what's and why's of what streams and pools of combustion gasses do inside our stoves, when we cannot directly observe them.
Though I imagine the inspired/motivated ones among us could make transparent scale models, and send smoke or vapor from a fog machine through them at different temperatures/densities and velocities to examine what would happen within different structures at different times during the burn.
In this thread you are invited to make up your own rules or existing known rules, and post them for discussion, comment, critique, experiment, and report results, that we all may develop a more intuitive sense of what the invisible liquids will want to do, and design for, and around that, to improve how our heating appliances meet our needs...
For the love of learning, let it begin!
I have posted the ideas as they have come to me in various places and I will be posting them here for people to read, examine and critique based on, or confirm congruity with, their own knowledge and experience.
Some of them I know are true because they are well known and evidenced by much past discussion, research, and scientific agreement, and some are my ideas about gas flow that have coalesced from reading these forums and other sources in researching the function and design of rocket stoves and mass heaters.
This thread is here for discussing and evaluating the validity of my own ideas and yours as well, so feel free to chime in with your own ideas, opinions, and intuition, about gas flow dynamos, as well as related scientific research and any other sources of information on the subject.
I am looking for help in creating a resource on gas flow dynamics that can be used to more intelligently create novel designs of both special case and common applications for heat storage and distribution, and giving more of us a more intuitive understanding of the what's and why's of what streams and pools of combustion gasses do inside our stoves, when we cannot directly observe them.
Though I imagine the inspired/motivated ones among us could make transparent scale models, and send smoke or vapor from a fog machine through them at different temperatures/densities and velocities to examine what would happen within different structures at different times during the burn.
In this thread you are invited to make up your own rules or existing known rules, and post them for discussion, comment, critique, experiment, and report results, that we all may develop a more intuitive sense of what the invisible liquids will want to do, and design for, and around that, to improve how our heating appliances meet our needs...
For the love of learning, let it begin!