The air flow over the surface impacts how quickly the link or car heats up but not how hot it gets since that is a function of the exposing temperature. We could dug up the old heat transfer equation for convection but I don't think many really want to go that far. Naturally there is an exception and that is unless you are going really really fast - eg space shuttle reentering the atmosphere.
Roland On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Brad wrote: > Thanks Matt- I agree- the car would not melt. What I am wondering > about is > a dab of solder, that has been engineered to thermally degrade in an > emergency, riding on the front bumper. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: supp...@firesprinkler.org To Unsubscribe, send an email to:sprinklerforum-requ...@firesprinkler.org (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
