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Is heat loss data from engineeringtoolbox reliable for open pools?

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CPU differences: quad core, dual core, etc. for CFD

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How Do Airframe Stresses Change During Rocket Motor Ignition and Flight?

  • denverdoc
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Building a globe-valved IC engine prototype: any major pitfalls?

  • wolram
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How to Launch a 15-Pound UAV: Air Pressure or Bungee?

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Time for water to freeze in a pipe

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Calculating Terminal Velocity in Turbulent Flow for a Spherical Object

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Hydro carbon fuel - H2 % value of total heat

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Calculating Stress Along a Cantilever Beam

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What Went Wrong with My Straight Line Mechanism Design?

  • snowJT
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Oil Hydraulic manual download link

  • P.Ramesh
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Why Are My Heat Exchanger Test Results Different?

  • almarzooq
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Insulation thickness calculation

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Determine the capacity of a boiler

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Heat recovery from car radiator.

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Calculating Tension Life of a Spring

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Ideas for SR-71 Blackbird Review Paper

  • piano_girl
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Need engineering assistance on a new concept product

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Small Claims Case - Coolant Flush/Water Pressure Question

  • sky1tech
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Energy available to a wind turbine

  • pgunderson
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Car Brake Performance Using Disc-Brake Variations

  • heiroglif
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Aero engine without gas turbine

  • P.Ramesh
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Whirlpool action in a tank created by inlet water

  • qlusa
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Designing a 1.2 m aluminum propeller for powered paragliders

  • Sirmisko
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Tuning a 1994 Mercedes 310D to run on vegetable oil with sensor logging

  • DarrenUK
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Heat Loss in a Hot Water Pipe System

  • Ouabache
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Car out of legos using the LEGO Mindstorms and gears

  • alex568
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Need FORTRAN Code for 3D Aerodynamic Matrices Calculation?

  • traianus
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Designing a Motorized Chalk Eraser to Reduce Effort

  • titus_polo
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General Cantilever Equations

  • X1088LoD
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Calculating cubic ft/ min and PSI

  • johnnyShopOwner
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Find a Book for ProE Woldfire 2.0

  • Rocket_guy
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Propeller thrust equation discrepancy with online calculators

  • nickpark83
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Toy Propeller Efficiency: Range of Efficiencies

  • sphoenixee
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Capture waste heat from diesel electric generators

  • paulo
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Would unlimited engine revs or gears give infinite top speed?

  • fedorfan
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Multichannel Square Tube Hydraulic Diameter

  • chupacabras
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How do distributed loads affect angled connecting rod systems?

  • stinlin
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Consequences of pressure on helix

  • Roger900
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Finding the Best Prop Setup for Bowfishing Boats

  • justinduke
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Designing an Amphibian Pick Up: Hull Fabrication Info

  • titus_polo
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How to Design Suspension Geometry for a Front Wheel Driven Trike?

  • wolram
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How does a wind turbine in a tunnel affect the volume flow rate?

  • sgc7of7
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Need Solutions Manual for Mechanics of Materials

  • M98Ranger
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What temperature to anneal an 8mm allen key for machining?

  • Shedfull
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Designing folding legs for a bunk bed .

  • cabellos
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Force exerted onto the pipe by a shrunk fit ring

  • sunshine76
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A few questions about helicopters

  • MadSimon
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Finding Major and Minor Strain from Mohr Circle of Stress

  • mjocalla
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Sea-Launch Anomaly: What Happened?

  • D H
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How does rod ratio affect piston side thrust on cylinder walls?

  • 5.0stang
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At what airspeed can braking parachutes safely deploy?

  • Sojourner01
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Im a physics student and was told that a mechanical engineer

  • australianschoolkid
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Particle Dynamics and Time Problem

  • s4orce
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Particle acceleration and velocity Problem

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Drivetrain mass increase skews torque output?

  • Sleeper
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Energy and rotational speed of a falling weight unwinding from a driveshaft

  • silverfish
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Flagpole Vortex: Wave Motion Causes Flag Flutter

  • verdigris
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How to derive continuity eqn. in polar form?

  • loveblade
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What is the direction of the buoyancy force?

  • harvhk852
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How Does Fluid Dynamics Complicate Airplane Toilet Design?

  • AlephZero
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What is the role of control volume in the Navier-Stokes equations?

  • verdigris
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Improving Noise Reduction in Airbus Engine Nacelles

  • verdigris
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Classification of corrosion, (Aviation Industry)

  • stan19
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Product engineering improvements for a Dewalt impact driver

  • Cyrus
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Do Aircraft and Watercraft Create Equal Intensity Compression Waves?

  • jackx47
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Convert 40 inches of water to PSI

  • wub1098
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Understanding Strain Invariants in Strength of Materials

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Gas flowing quickly over the surface of an aircraft wing

  • verdigris
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What is the pressure on Pike's Peak above Denver, CO?

  • enviroengnhopeful
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Every rotational motion have torque?

  • MechaMZ
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Calculating Power and Efficiency for a Two-Wheel-Drive Bicycle Design

  • Ascetic Anchorite
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Determining Shear Stress on Bolts

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How to Calculate the Moment of Inertia for an IC Engine?

  • sandy3981
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I need a pump that will shoot LOTS of water extremely far

  • Erazman
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Moving mesh CFD in OpenFOAM

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Understanding Volumetric Efficiency and Beyond 100%

  • 5.0stang
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What size driven pulley for 200 rpm from an 8.5 inch pulley at 340 rpm?

  • Janice12
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How does octane number affect EGT readings in a 2-stroke engine?

  • Detonator
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Can it hurt an engine's performance by having to big of a throttle body?

  • 5.0stang
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Steamline, Pathline, Streakline

  • harvhk852
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Building a small jet engine from spare parts

  • Shawnzyoo
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Structural failure of steel due to heat?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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What Is the Minimum Temperature for Safe Commercial Flight Takeoff?

  • scott_alexsk
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I'm trying to recall my M.E. materials science class

  • eehiram
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Aerodynamic stabilization of satellites

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How to design a car model workin on chem. energy?

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Servo-controlled, two-way pneumatic pump?

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Engineering Primers for Non-Engineer

  • TexanJohn
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Isothermal or adiabatic process

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Is a Fully Adiabatic Process Truly Possible?

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Buran Program: USSR's Unfortunate Cold War Spacecraft

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