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    Water Cooling Calculations for Water Cooled Motor

    Patricia, I found it in my heat transfer book, as I'd figured would be the case, it's an "energy balance", in the "Internal Flow" section of my book. Thanks very much for your help! I love these simple first-order approximation formulas when they fit your situation. This will do nicely for my...
  2. PrecisionMechDesign

    Water Cooling Calculations for Water Cooled Motor

    Great info. Thank you both! Patricia, what is this "formula" called? I want to dig through my old heat transfer book and fully understand what's going on here. Willard, what formula are you using?
  3. PrecisionMechDesign

    Water Cooling Calculations for Water Cooled Motor

    I'm designting a motor that will be running hot, and needs some water cooling. Are there some simple equations relating water flow to temperature, etc. of the motor? From what I remember from Heat Transfer in college (and reminded by opening my Heat Transer book), this stuff just isn't that...

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