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Originally Posted by Tog_
I figured it was some friction based thing, but is the degree of heating something that would be known already?
I can see where it might be something that ship designers might need to take into account once travel like this is possible, but is the amount of heat transfer something that we could figure out without actually being out there to get the values?
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It would just depend on how many particles per cc there are and their relative velocity compared to your vessel. It is easy to calculate the amount of power being transferred by these particles, and also the rate of energy dissipation for a given temperature of material. The two must be equal.
Some of the values will be estimates.