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Post by goduranus on Oct 13, 2016 3:55:13 GMT
I was testing out a design for a Hydrogen tank, it seems that the tanks are lighter proportional to their contents the longer they are. Why is this? I would have thought that spherical tanks are more efficient.
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Post by RA2lover on Oct 13, 2016 14:44:52 GMT
My guess is less mass is being used on surface tension pumps/slosh baffles, though i'm not sure myself either.
Another possibility is limiting tank radius reduces the amount of force the walls need to resist against, though my hunch is it wouldn't work very well when you take the (lack of) fluid compressibility into account.
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