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Relationship between speed and flow
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Running multiple studies in COMSOL
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How Can I Solve for the Temperature of a Spiral Inductor in Comsol Multiphysics?
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Designing an Onager Catapult: Tips and Tricks for Optimal Performance
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Who has the more promising fusion approach, MIT or ITER?
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Arrow passing through a moving target -- What is the final velocity?
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Does pressure in a compressed air system increase....
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Determining the optimal layout?
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Flow through piping (a highly viscous additive)
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How to Calculate 3D Printed Gear Tooth Strength?
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How to measure water flowing from a washing machine pump?
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Exokat [catsuit exoskeleton] and Simbot 8.4 invention idea?
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Example of a technology that was long underestimated?
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Simplicity as an advantage of a certain method or approach to a problem
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Discover the Magic of Marble-Based Computing with Turing Tumble Kickstarter
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Pidgeon process for the Moon base ISRU?
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I am having a problem with vortices
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Use only a powerful fan without a compressor?
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Missing eddy currents in copper?
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Computer Axial Lithography: Just Awesome
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What are these rusty metal pieces in my staircase walls?
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Is Frequency Doubling the Secret to Producing Red Light in Laser Pointers?
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AN Standard 37 degree taper fitting
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Bridge Collapse Genoa - Informed Engineering Perspectives
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Heat Recovery Potential from Domestic Boilers & Ovens
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Best Engineering in the Past 100 years
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Freezing Clocks: Accuracy Impact & Reasons
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Find suitable SI units to work with a Vibration Sensor
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Celebrating Engineers Week: Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers
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Acoustic Barrier Fence: Reduce Noise with Sound Absorption
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Steam turbine start-up degree of superheat
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How can I accurately transfer a color texture onto a 3d face model?
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Collision avoidance for moving robotic limbs
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Refractive Index vs Conductivity
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Biogas or solar heat storage cooker for rural villages?
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Modeling reaction forces on a foundation for fences
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Modeling a mass hanging by a spring: motion in 3D time/freq domain
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Help with formulas for calculating pressure
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How Long Will It Take A Tank Of Water To Warm to 70 Degrees
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Reducing Noise of Linear Actuator up to 125kg Force
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What height can a pressurized N2O cylinder reach at 60 bar?
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The merger of engineering and economics
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Voltage/Current variation in a motor
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Secondary Mirror in Solar Concentrator Dish Designs
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Getting Started With Control Systems
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Can Using a Mass Heater Improve the Efficiency of a Radiator?
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Maximum Force of Compressed Air
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What is the most efficient way to create steam with the desired properties?
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Valve/Material for Siphoning Air & Blocking Water
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Fabricating a storage room inside a large warhouse
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Harmonics in the "electrical" domain
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Naval Engineering 19-20c: Fun with numbers
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Force Calculation for bending of TOR steel bars
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High school solar car team in search of a mentor
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Mathematical model of an induction motor
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Placing Dehumidifier in Cold/Warm Space for Optimal Condensate Flow
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Feasibility of stratopheric wind turbines?
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Recharge satellite batteries utilizing a ground-based laser?
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Shape-changing dirigible electrical generation/transmission
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Using Aircraft & Balloons to Deliver 'Sunscreen' to Upper Atmosphere?
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(Biomedical Engin.) Fluid flow through a semi-porous membrane (COMSOL)
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How is fuel pumped in fighter aircrafts? (F-16 etc.)
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Can saltwater be desalinated with nanobots?
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Units of capacity for the manufacture of flexo printing plates
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How can I build a cost-effective DIY vacuum chamber for my experiment?
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LCD screen manufacturing process simplification?
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KiwiSDR and recommendations for antennas and cables
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Which is the most efficient way to dive?
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How does ion aircraft propulsion work?
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Why are triple base propellants not used in firearms?
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Does This Engine Function Properly?
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Falling Solar Panel Costs: Lessons for Making New Technology Affordable?
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Is this kind of pressure chamber design possible?
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Calculating airflow with pressure and diameter?
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Pressure while heated - half full or full container
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How to spin a gear at a slower rate without a bigger gear?
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How do wet/dry vacuum cleaners work? What is the physics behind them?
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Maximum gain possible by sound wave focusing
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FIU pedestrian bridge install left it vulnerable to collapse, WTH
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How do I use full-bridge strain gauge circuit to measure F?
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Can the Design of a Motorcycle Airbox Affect Engine Noise Resonance?
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Exotic Bicycle Designs and Engineering
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Which materials have the highest coefficients of friction?
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Calculation of pressure variation due to fluid discharge
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Interpreting the Second Moment of Area and Euler's Formula Values
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Will Disney's Robotic Acrobats Replace Stuntmen in Movies?
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Difference Between Young's Modulus & Second Moment of Area
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What Is the Correct Way to Calculate Poisson's Ratio?
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O-ring Selection: Chemical & Thermal Resistance
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Designing a Wood Truss with Medeek Calculator App
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Cubic Feet of Argon required to fill a tank under vacuum
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How Can I Account for Wind Loading in Calculating Buckling Load on a Beam?
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Pressure in a 2" pipe branching into four 1" pipes
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Brute force regression software?
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A Cautionary Tale on Inventing from the BBC
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Isothermal Processes: Ideal Gas Equation and Doubts Explained
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Help With Understanding Hooke's Law
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