[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-slip_condition


IMHO opinion (I don't have the time to read your links ) the plasma creates a virtual surface with a non-zero velocity for the bulk flow to adhere to.

Quite so. And more 'Down-Wind' with this new process.



For a start I imagine implementing it around the bottom right blue corner in this pic:


Then see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftKjkZHirc

Now instead of wires; what if your 'wires' were instead the trailing edge of the cooling fins of your cars radiator..?

I NB that modern car radiators are already electrically insulated from the rest of the vehicle to stop galvanic corrosion, so applying eg: -20 000 volts to them shouldn't be difficult.
(galvanic..?)

I'm not thinking of replacing the radiator fan;
I'm thinking about how much more efficient a radiator (or heatsink) gets if it doesn't have a boundary layer insulating it?
How much smaller could it be..?
(I imagine 'losing' heat exited electrons may have an effect on its own..? and is said to improve ionic thrust)

If so designed; there's no reason you couldn't also put eg: + 20 000 volt thin wires in front of a radiator's rounded cooling tubes if they stuck out further than the fins did.