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[John S Gwynne]

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   In message <9501062058.AA27040 at pt9254.ped.pto.ford.com> , you write:
 

| >Interesting -- can you elaborate further?  Suction through the MAF sensor 
| >"seems" pretty steady, although I imagine there is quite a lot of turbulence
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| >further down in the manifold.  What dynamics do you need to account for?
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| I'm sorry I can't elaborate in full detail. I'm working on these types of
| issues for a large company and must maintain an appropriate degree of 
| confidentiality.  I can however discuss what is already public information
| (e.g. SAE papers, ASME Journals).
	<....>
| Tony

I'm curious, Tony. When it comes to solving manifold problems,
is everything modeled (i.e., boundary value problem with a
pressure field...full blown numerical models) or are the basic
properties/dynamics modeled empirically/heuristically?
(what's the state-of-the-art?)

                                       John S Gwynne
                                          Gwynne.1 at osu.edu
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