Lux, James P skrev:
On 6/10/09 1:15 AM, "Magnus Danielson" <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
Nobody having a thermal inductive material around? That would be very
usefull to handle temperature shifts.
Let's see.. If heat flow (watts) is the analog of current (Amps), and delta
T is the analog of voltage, what would a thermal inductor be... It would
have to have a delta T that is proportional to the rate of change of heat
flow. A tough concept to wrap my early morning before coffee brain around..
You could ask around and see if you don't have one of those lying
around. Otherwise I am sure your colleagues would find good use for it.
A thin sheet of it wrapped around the birds would help thermal management.
BTW There are "thermal batteries" which contain a phase change material,
like wax, in them, but just like real batteries they're more analogous to a
capacitor.
For certain temperature ranges a certain dynamic range can be made to
behave inductive I guess. The tunnel diode springs to mind as a similar
contradictive thing with its dynamic negative resistance.
One could synthesize a thermal inductor with an active device (e.g. A heat
pump of some sort), just as one can synthesize an inductor with a op amp and
Rs and Cs (and some externally supplied energy)
Synthesis would certainly be possible, but a pure thermal inductor is
scarse. :)
Cheers,
Magnus
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