All other things equal, which metal would better dissipate heat in a radiator application: copper or Aluminum?
Sep 27, 2009 by Eat F | Posted in Engineering
All things being equal means that the fluids, thickness, temperatures, and velocities on both sides of the radiator would be the same.
In that case, the heat transfer would depend only on the thermal conductivity of the material. Copper
Studiomonkey | Sep 27, 2009
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