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Originally Posted by XeroHouR you can't base how much heat your water system can take based off the heat that your rad can supposedly dissipate either I assume? | Not on its own. It's all about thermal resistance. Basically, the more heat you push into the radiator, the hotter it will get, all things being the same. |
Actually yes you can. The radiator is (usually) the rate-limiting step since air is a pretty useless heat transfer material. In thermal system design one either works forwards, specifying the size of radiator needed to dissipate a given thermal load or to work in reverse, specifying the maximum acceptable load for a given radiator.
The calculations to determine the temperatures of the system at or near steady-state are pretty simple (for a chemical or mechanical engineer)
