water cooled
Heat dispersed fluidly
Water cooled describes machinery or equipment that uses circulating water to dissipate heat.
The term appears most often with engines and computers: a water-cooled gaming PC, water-cooled diesel generators.
The alternative is air cooling, which uses fans or passive airflow.
Water cooling is more efficient but more complex, requiring pumps, reservoirs, and tubing.
- radiatorHeat transfer device
- coolantTemperature-regulating fluid
- antifreezeEngine cooling additive
- heat exchangerTransfers thermal energy between media
- heat sinkDevice absorbing component warmth
fan · thermostat · engine · race car · overclocking · CPU · chiller · pipes · closed loop · tubing · circulation · pump · flow rate · reservoir · thermal · condenser · glycol · jacket
- enginesdiesel engine, gasoline engine, car engine, truck engine, piston engine
- generatorsgenerator, generators, diesel generator, portable generator, standby generator
- heat exchangersheat exchanger, floating head, hairpin, printed circuit, microchannel