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Incompressible Navier Stokes - Short Question

  • Kastenfrosch
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What is the formula for finding pressure drop in pipe flow?

  • banerjeerupak
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Can you show me schemes of simple back-forward motion inverter.

  • sloloo
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Railcar Stability: How Do They Stay Upright on a Narrow Track?

  • ScienceGuyOrg
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Building a Steel Square Tube Deck for 10ft Pond Filter Pit

  • King Tut
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What Gas Pushes the Piston in a Car Fuel Engine?

  • CHICAGO
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How Do You Calculate Variable Water Pressure in Pipes?

  • metroactus
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Mathematical equation of a Jet Stream of Air

  • Uridan
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6V 300mA solar panel or 4v 430mA panel

  • mnnittronix
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Heat-to-Coolant Determination for Race Car

  • pchoopanya
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Why can't India build high-speed trains on its existing rails?

  • chhitiz
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Water hammer in jacketed pipes: what caused the damage?

  • maxx_payne
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Becoming a mechanical engineer?

  • TN2010
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Transitioning to a Career in Designing Water Systems

  • maxx_payne
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Does the small size of a hole affect fluid flow rate?

  • pbiebach
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How to find strain in simple cantilever beam

  • ashunitk
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Importing form Proengineer to Ansys and or Comsol

  • amirghaderi
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Calculating inertia and momentum for real bikes vs exercise bikes

  • mistry
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Basics to pursue meachanical engineering in college

  • blitz.km
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Why is dynamics considered harder than statics?

  • koab1mjr
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G: Why Is My Centrifugal Pump Not Working Properly?

  • maxx_payne
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I want to make put a control package on a R/C plane

  • aerojunkie
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Estimating shear loss from a piston ring

  • g0ggs123
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Energy storage density of coiled springs

  • stanleykorn
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Density of Saturated Vapor R-134a

  • Nugget_Mon
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FYP inquiries - Vertical-axis Wind Turbine

  • jacksonywl
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How Does Non-Horizontal Orientation Affect Venturi Meter Results?

  • Martyhanna
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Does Oil Viscosity Impact Low Temperature Stirling Engine Performance?

  • MacLaddy
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Calculating Tightening Torque for Bolt Packing

  • gopinathaengg
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Building a wireless robotic car using PIC microcontroller 16F877.

  • kloong
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Synchronized dual lid lifter using 18" and 9" aluminum bars

  • cybertron
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Exhaust gas temperature from 2 MW CNG engine for heat exchanger design

  • rafistyle
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Question on swept and mitre bends

  • Ask1122
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Will engine torque reaction rotate the rear axle?

  • R Power
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Buckling of columns - displacement distance?

  • peet_dk
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Cantilever switch based on electrostatic force

  • Si14
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What is the difference between 2d Autocad drawings and 3d Autocad drawings

  • jtesttubes
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Which Is More Powerful: 2 Piston or 4 Piston Engines?

  • otomanb
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What are all the possible 5-digit binary code combinations?

  • univeruser
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Finding Stress Concentration Factor K for Chamfered Joints

  • patrickv
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Let's Talk Bearing Spring Rings

  • minger
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Thermodynamics Heating oil Problem

  • amit4644
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Nonlinear Lifting Line method to estimate wing lift distribution

  • aero1
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Active techniques to control vortex shedding

  • ghost85
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Can I Use Lagrangian Equations to Calculate a Car's Response on an Uneven Road?

  • alexisonsmith
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How do I convert mol/L to g/cm^3

  • alexisonsmith
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Deflection of tapered beam cantilever

  • SJB
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Area moment of inertia and second moment of inertia

  • R Power
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Building a Power-Generating Turbine with an Unmodified Motor

  • Hank_Rearden
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Massive Yet Tiny (TM) Engine: Revolutionary Technology or Too Good to Be True?

  • RainmanAero
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Top High Torque Low Pressure Steam Power Generators for 1kW Output

  • mickeyt500
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Turbulence Kinetic Energy in pipe flow

  • Richardf
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Dynamic Modeling: Measuring Force from Voice Coil Actuator

  • james2286
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Efficient AC: How Does It Reduce Compressor Work Load?

  • PatPwnt
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How Should Pistons Be Timed in Differently Angled Cylinders?

  • Chantry09
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How bad do we need a pressurized fuel tank?

  • dE_logics
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How can I determine the best design for clamping teeth for a clamping device?

  • Su Solberg
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Designing Lightweight Wheels for a 200 kg Car Chassis

  • grey
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Mechanical calculator design problems

  • kevjcarvalho
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Using a computer as a signal generator

  • wil3
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Why aren't engine blocks and cylinder heads made from ceramics?

  • wolram
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Remote button style thermometer

  • dingpud
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Can a Constant Force be Achieved with a Variable Spring?

  • dE_logics
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Floating seal suppliers and design for deep submerged pulley

  • Su Solberg
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What are the design considerations for a 5kW Stirling engine?

  • vidarth
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Allowable stress for a cantilever beam

  • mdaltayeb
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What Pressure is Needed to Release 400ml of Hydraulic Oil in 10 Seconds?

  • kinki_ania
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Product Design - Real World Physics Problem

  • lott
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Seeking example of 2nd order thermal system.

  • DragonPetter
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Comsol-Shear stress with velocity profile

  • baranii2000
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Heat-resistant connector for 36-38 AWG nichrome wire

  • jxmiller
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Newton-Raphson Iteration in Transient Thermal Analysis

  • Shriram
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Compression of Compressed Fibre Gaskets: Is it Linear?

  • James3849
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How does engine braking in petrol engines compare to external braking?

  • monty37
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Tested methods to save fuel when driving

  • wolram
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Electronics interfering in Mechanics

  • R Power
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Can Rear Wheel Steering Improve Bus Maneuverability?

  • karlmust
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Why does cooling a refrigerator's high-pressure side improve efficiency?

  • Green Zach
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Parametric Sweep Analysis in Comsol

  • yepyeni
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Differential is not necessary for the front axle

  • monty37
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Using a two stroke to power an air hammer

  • rmedeiros
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How to make a door that rotates around a column

  • Hobnob
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Slider crank problem with unknown angular velocity

  • deesal
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What's the name of this mechanical component?

  • dE_logics
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I want to build a single person helicopter.

  • furqankaimkha
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Methods for moving steel blocks

  • railroadman
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Applying a Bending Moment to a Plate with Forces

  • SublimeTouch
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Problem at calculation of convection

  • ice_cold
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Flow rate from 8 inch cast iron water main break at 84psi

  • Dan Sponaugle
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Mechanical Calculator: Gears, Slide Rule, Mechanisms

  • kevjcarvalho
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Shaft torque requirement (should be simple)

  • Seraph042
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API vs CPI: Key Differences in Oil/Water Separation

  • Perau
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