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uiucengineer t1_j5pzrh5 wrote

Reply to comment by pjgf in Why does hot air cool? by AspGuy25

That’s not an exception, it’s a different thing from convective heat transfer

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minimal_gainz t1_j5q5n6c wrote

Yeah, but that's usually what people are actually thinking of when they say "moving air cools better". It's not really the air moving, it's the evaporation, but the average person doesn't necessarily know that.

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uiucengineer t1_j5q64oe wrote

Moving air does actually cool better without evaporation. The air just has to be colder than the thing. That’s why your computer has fans.

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