Talk:Transpiration cooling

How close to paraphrase a source?
A source used in the article, Thermopedia, says "Transpiration cooling is one way of active heat protection (see Heat Protection) during which a coolant in the course of passing through the wall of a body absorbs a part of the internal energy of a body requiring cooling, and simultaneously actively affects the convective heat flux going into a body from the surrounding space."

The prose in the article, as of 31 January, said: "Transpiration cooling is a thermodynamic process where cooling is achieved by a process of moving a liquid through the wall of a body to absorb some portion of the internal energy of a body requiring cooling while simultaneously actively affecting the convective and radiative[1] heat flux going into a body from the surrounding space."

I had thought this a sufficient restating of the source to not implicate any sort of concern from copyright and too close a copy. Editor CASSIOPEIA asked me on my talk page to take another look.

So I've just taken another look and edited the article prose a bit more. So it now states (1 Feb):

"Transpiration cooling is a thermodynamic process where cooling is achieved by a process of moving a liquid or a gas through the wall of a structure to absorb some portion of the heat energy from the structure while simultaneously actively reducing the convective and radiative heat flux coming into the structure from the space surrounding the structure."

The field of thermodynamics often uses the term "body" for a generic physical structure that is not well specified; but here I've tried to make the prose a bit less esoteric for the global reader of Wikipedia and say "structure". Also, "internal energy" is a theormodynamic concept, but have changed it to the (perhaps) more grokable "heat energy."

Does this work better? Cheers. N2e (talk) 11:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank your for the the edit. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 12:07, 1 February 2019 (UTC)