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How can I simulate laser drilling in Comsol or MATLAB?

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Calculating Torque for a Rotating Cylinder

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Design Dynamic Reciprocating Pump Engine with Variable Stroke Length

  • Setix
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Engineering (mechanical) drawing probs

  • Beeorz
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Why is hex meshing preferred over tet meshing in CFD?

  • mahaesh
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How Do You Calculate the Maximum Bolt Angle Through a Flanged Hole?

  • MJCfromCT
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When flowing fluid passes through throttling there is a drop in

  • ahmedbadr
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Saturated Liquid-Gas constant pressure expansion/contraction

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Is the Aeroturbine Windturbine a Viable Source of Power for Buildings?

  • Astronuc
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Is there a mechanical way of increasing angular movement?

  • Model12
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Exhaust thermocouple failure on GE Frame 9 Mark V gas turbine

  • transporter84
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Sub-fields in mechanical engineering: demand, salary, and job stress

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Engineering lecture videos (U Wisconsin)

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How does charge air cooling work in a charge air-cooled engine?

  • chhitiz
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Difference between dissipation,diffusion and dispersion

  • mahaesh
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Finding a compact 12V PMDC brush gearmotor with 3.3-5 N-m torque

  • dave226
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Application of lagrangian equations

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Does the equation of continuity apply to compressible fluids?

  • chhitiz
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Interpreting the units and meaning of Bernoulli's equation

  • Sohan
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What are these equations representing?

  • optics.tech
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How to calculate deflection for thermal expansion of a ring?

  • minger
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What Does Enthalpy Represent in Thermodynamics?

  • ahmedbadr
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How to access WRC 151 for perforated plate deflections?

  • CFDFEAGURU
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Continuum Mechanics: Finding a Discussion Group

  • Dafe
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How Can I Determine the Velocity of Points C and F in a 4-Bar Linkage System?

  • blue-steel
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How to model Soil layers in COMSOL

  • Phanindra
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Interview a mechanical engineer for a project

  • james1902004
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Need advices about my GP - Sketch Interpretation and Simulation tool

  • Magdy
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Does 5% ethanol fuel reduce engine durability?

  • pixel01
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How are mobile phones transformed into remote controls?

  • craze4physics
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Fluid mechanics simulation software for beginners

  • optics.tech
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What are the Properties of Refrigerant 134a in a Piston-Cylinder Device?

  • Suitengu
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Testing Bernoulli's Equation on a Moving Vehicle

  • chhitiz
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Water volume, flow and speed question.

  • rodnjo
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Fuel consumption,throttle position, engine speed

  • phlegmy
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Is My Calculation for Car Deceleration Speed Correct?

  • nic_nic344
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Why won't my riding mower start after engaging the blades?

  • dezstir
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How to calculate lift for delta wing

  • perrabananskruv
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Compressing air in a compressor-what is the thermodynamics of it?

  • chhitiz
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Plate with hole, mechanics problem

  • Dafe
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How Do I Navigate COMSOL's Boundary and Subdomain Settings for My Thesis?

  • Phanindra
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Background information on engine blow-by

  • uk_samo
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Mechanism with up and down movement?

  • rvr1974
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What Changes When Cooling a Plate in Air Instead of Oil?

  • capterdi
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What is static pressure in a flowing fluid and why does it change?

  • ahmedbadr
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E-books and web resources on industrial furnaces

  • karapantass
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How Many Bolts Are Needed for PVC Flanges on a Filter Column?

  • Bashir2008
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Can a spinning flywheel help turn a braked car wheel?

  • Steve Stone
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Mechanical vibration and shock control

  • sri.karmarkar
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Mech. Eng. Books (recommendations sought)

  • EsoEng
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How to Calculate Motorcycle Girder Suspension Trajectory?

  • fslflint
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What should be the mean effetive pressure ?

  • falik
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Bernoulli Equation and Newton Law

  • Donny
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Compressible or imcompressible?

  • vivavee
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Fluid mechanics: source and sink flows

  • jason.bourne
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Is Exit Velocity of Water Pipe Dependent on Diameter?

  • RGClark
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Can a dynamo generate power from a rotating 500kg cylinder at 500rpm?

  • Analysis
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Reaction force between rod AC and trunnion B in crank mechanism

  • seiseilim
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ANSI RC, LC etc. seems to deal with shifts

  • palindrome
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How do i figure how much torque i need?

  • sticktnt
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What is rotary wheel-like appendages

  • vishnukorde
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Verifying Stress Components in a Circular Cylinder

  • maros522
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How are exergy and Gibbs free energy related?

  • oldsloguy
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Force on Rollers: 100N Pulled Down, 200N On Cylinders?

  • Kalgoolie
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Relationship of Moments of Inertia

  • minger
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How to Calculate Pressure/Gap in Heated Fastened Materials?

  • Dafe
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How does Lenz's law apply to back EMF in DC motors?

  • AngelTyrael
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Fluid Drag on a wire inside of a pipe

  • EzeTom
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Model the flow of liquid through a pipe/tube and calculate the pressure

  • redargon
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How powerful would an engine have to be to lift 150lbs?

  • BigFly
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Why does pushing the gas pedal make a car stronger when pulling something?

  • pixel01
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What do constants C and D represent in 2-link manipulator torque equation?

  • mitra1343
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Calculating Stress Tensor for MEMS Project

  • leofur
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Does Pressure Equalize in Double Wall Steel Tanks with a Leak?

  • tosh382
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Interrupting My PF Vacation: Behold DARPA's BigDog Project!

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why is my compound pendulum experiment not proving Rouths Rule?

  • EmilyM
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Maximum load for a 1 inch steel C hook

  • capterdi
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Steam Generator take me off grid.

  • anu08
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Possible alternatives to Power-Over-Fiber?

  • Mech_Engineer
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Universal Coupling: What Is It?

  • ms_r
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Torque and rpm scaling for a 20 kW hydro generator through gearbox

  • alibaba2
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Motor to rotate 40-tonne house 220 degrees in 12 hours

  • alexxan
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Calculating Speed of Sound at Inlet

  • jason.bourne
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Bearing which rest on the rod and was between rod and ceiling

  • wise318
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Cylinder on equally-spaced compression springs at an angle

  • MobiusMind
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Whats Direct Injection Technique?

  • anonymoussome
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Euler and lagrange frame of reference

  • jason.bourne
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Pillow Block for Vertical Iron Pipe Support

  • taylaron
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Looking for a book on turbulent modeling: Any recommendations?

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Calculate Fatigue Life of Custom Bolt

  • araanandv2
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Calculate Motor RPM and Horsepower Using Homemade Dynamometer for Pocket Bikes

  • puppetmaster
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CO2 Power - Designing an Impulse and/or Reaction Turbine

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Getting high speed from a slow moving object.

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Converting cycles to RPM for a four-stroke engine

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