New Nozzle Design Yields Smaller Droplets

[Tuckerfan]

For some reason they’re focused on printers and not things like fuel injectors.

Using a mathematical optimization procedure they developed, Chen and Brenner reported in the April 23, 2004, Physical Review Letters that tweaking the shape of a circular nozzle will always give you a better nozzle. The best shape they found for making smaller droplets turned out to be a sort of sucked-in triangle. Other factors being equal, the triangular nozzle can cut the droplet size by 21 percent compared to a circular nozzle.

Now, allow me to be snarky for a moment, because of this comment:

“The idea of using mathematics is a very good one with lots of potential,” Brenner said.

Really? Who the hell would ever have thought that? :rolleyes:

[Enola_Straight]

Diesels that get closer to stoichiometric without extra soot
vs
sharper printing and copying.
Hmmmm. :rolleyes:

[NinjaChick]

@Tuckerfan

“The idea of using mathematics is a very good one with lots of potential,” Brenner said.

Really? Who the hell would ever have thought that?

Talk to me sometime after I’ve just spent over two hours on my math homework, and I’ll tell you what’s a good idea to do with math (or at least Euclid).

[Tuckerfan]

@NinjaChick

Talk to me sometime after I’ve just spent over two hours on my math homework, and I’ll tell you what’s a good idea to do with math (or at least Euclid).

Don’t promise me a good time and then not deliver!