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Fan Designs and Rules / Re: "Metal fountain" extreme performance dropship cooling system
« Last post by Maingunnery on Today at 18:04:03 »BT's normal heat sink systems also involve concentrating heat into material, the difference is that the canonical heat sinks pump it into fluid coolant which goes to a radiator system (SHS using heavy but space-efficient graphite radiators and DHS using lighter but space-intensive polymer radiators), while this version pumps it into molten droplet medium to be temporarily ejected out the ship. It pretty much has to be since radiation is so inefficient at low temperatures (radiation emission power scales with T^4).But forcing higher temperatures requires additional energy and it also sounds like a complete nightmare for maintenance.
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No, tiny droplets are one of if not the most efficient (in terms of per unit mass) method to increase heat dissipation via increasing surface area.But for optimal efficiency the droplet cloud should also be quite diffuse, which limits the total mass flow. It could be that the ship would be better off with traditional radiators.
, I mostly play alpha strike. I've found that I like bigger games (400 points), but I don't like running too many new mechs at once because it bogs things down. So, I'll probably make a lance out of the new units and then try to rotate through all the new stuff over the rest of the year. I've never gotten this many at the once, so we'll see how it goes. 