On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 SlyFoxRc@aol.com wrote:
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> My point earlier was that the fluid, be
> it glycol based or silicone based is not compressible in its fluid state, only
> when it has boiled or had some form of gas introduced into it.
While thinking about this makes my head hurt (compressible fluids was
one of the reasons I switched from aerospace to EE lo those many years
ago), I seem to recall that a liquid can only be treated as
incompressible if there are no conditions causing a density change in
it -- things like pressure change, or heat differentials. Given that
both of these are a large part of a braking system, brake fluid within
a braking system *must* be treated as a compressible fluid.
Now, those of you who know more about this may summarily chastise me
for my oversimplification. :=)
-jef
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