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A proposal for a hypersonic craft.

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What is the theory and application for damping

  • aries
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Head Loss Calculation: Discrepancies?

  • TSN79
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Online resources for learning thermal analysis and design

  • Baltistani
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What is the golden rule for torquing nuts and bolts?

  • wolram
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Why Must Refrigerant Be Compressed in Air Conditioners?

  • haynewp
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How can one design an efficient vortex using an impellar and a cylinder?

  • engware
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100% efficiency plus hydrosonic pump

  • Artman
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Heat Transfer of Horizontal Closed Loop Systems

  • NSX
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Static Pressure Poorly Described by Texts

  • Cyrus
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What is the mechanism behind airport shopping trolley brakes?

  • Bladibla
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Some Food For Thought for Tinkerers

  • FredGarvin
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Is a Gas-Powered Blower/Vac Enough for a Water-Capable Hovercraft?

  • Imop45
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Who Worked on the Electronics of the Avro Arrow?

  • DaveC426913
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How to get a hexagonal nut out of a round hole

  • wolram
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Convert Mechanical Energy to Heat: Min Heat, Max Output

  • sid211
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I need an easy explanation for a flow formula

  • uhuge
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'Jet' engine with positive displacement compressor?

  • NateTG
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Is Exiting Nitrogen in Jet Engines Contributing to Thrust?

  • RGClark
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What is Aeroelasticity? Is it one of the branches of Aerodynamics?

  • EngTechno
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Automating Placement of Crumbly Sponges in Pots

  • wolram
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Heat transfer or fluid dynamics?

  • hanson
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Where to Find Moment Coefficients?

  • physicsCU
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Automotive Learn Automotive Systems: Find the Best Book to Read

  • Neohaven
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Artificial Muscle Finds Use In Robots

  • DigEagle
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Can a Normal Refrigerator Compressor Pump Liquids for a DIY Heat Engine?

  • Longstreet
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Undergoing large project: go cart

  • Ayrity
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How to calculate Reynolds number for a boat and how turbulence affects drag

  • ArielGenesis
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Lift on an Airfoil: Bernoulli vs Newtonian

  • al_201314
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How Does Air Flow Change with 90-Degree Fittings?

  • dingpud
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What factors limit the maximum speed of a ground vehicle?

  • |Orion's Thought|
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Mechanical Principles. Engineering Components

  • kyleblack
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What does integrated mean in an integrated heat pump?

  • hanson
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Strength reduction of hollow shaft with notch and transverse holes

  • elmariachi
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Can rigid dirigibles with scramjet engines reach space?

  • Intuitive
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Finding articles on hardness and torsion testing

  • hamham
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Water Powered Car: Is HHO a Viable Option?

  • theCandyman
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Vacuum Technology Research - Sagar's Project

  • sagarchand
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Why tiles for re-entry and not launch?

  • Line
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How often do airliners use autoland?

  • russ_watters
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Solenoid force to electrical current

  • Mike Phan
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Fluid Mechaincs - Draining Sphere

  • bige1027
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Convection question? MechE or Civil?

  • Trooko
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What are the key factors affecting high speed train aerodynamics?

  • himanshu121
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Can Biodiesel Be Converted for Use in Gasoline Engines?

  • Ayrity
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Difference between accuracy and resolution

  • TSN79
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What are throttling process and Joule Thomson effect?

  • ahmad.hasan
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Calculations on a set of drumbrakes

  • TSN79
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What is the relationship between airflow and pressure in a compressor?

  • sam_nich
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Rear seat brace design for Buick Grand National: round or flat bars

  • usfz28
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How to improve momentum transfer in spacecraft

  • Intuitive
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Creating a Car Model for Turning: Dynamics Knowledge Needed

  • JoaoRebelo
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Canard Configuration and Sum of Moments

  • mpm
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Solving Problems in Theoretical Acoustics: Need Book Suggestions

  • FredGarvin
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Minimum machining time for 8 ft forging with deflection constraint

  • wbb2
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How Does the Explicit Method Solve 1-D Heat Conduction Problems?

  • Lucky mkhonza
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Where to Buy a 9m Wide Three Layer Blown Film Coextrusion Line?

  • zaina
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Spring designed for compression

  • sid_galt
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Analysis of Performance of Rotary Vane Compressor

  • sam_nich
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How can I design a homemade dynamometer for small engines?

  • Ayrity
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What is the normal depth of a channel in uniform flow?

  • Pyrrhus
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Friction factor on very very low reynolds number

  • han168
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Automotive How caster and SAI affect camber during steering

  • krekquel
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Measuring Lift Curve Slope on a 1/2-Wing vs Full Wing

  • ChrisHarvey
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Can Worm Gear Work w/ Spur Gear for Model?

  • shwagy357
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Which Book is Best for Learning Dynamics in Engineering Mechanics?

  • Undergrad-ME
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Should I use one or two filters on my air conditioning system?

  • haynewp
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Researching Spring Loaded Pneumatic Cylinders

  • justinreeves
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Can't seen to get the right solution-A sluice gate dams water up

  • JSBeckton
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Is there a difference between shock waves and compression waves?

  • Cliff_J
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Can an Old Engine Run on Modern Oils and Unleaded Petrol?

  • wolram
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Why are camshafts normally ground instead of welded?

  • sid_galt
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Best software for radiation thermal analysis

  • Baltistani
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Can a Hydraulic Engine with a Single Moving Part Function?

  • wolram
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What does a CEM actually do? Strictly Energy Audits and such?

  • PeopleEngineer
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Square wheel locomotion for MEMS

  • Ivan Seeking
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How does this new car system produce hydrogen using metals?

  • RVBuckeye
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Is the Rand Cam engine a replacement for the piston engine?

  • wolram
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The Minimum Speed Necessary for a Scramjet to Operate

  • |Orion's Thought|
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Expansion pressure of water in a closed system

  • laca4677
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Axial and centrifugal ventilators

  • mystiqus
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Residual stresses in finite element modelling

  • dilberg
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What parts do I need to build a single-passenger car from scratch?

  • banerjeerupak
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Nu (Nusselt) number for vertical rectangular enclosures

  • leka
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What Are the Advantages and Challenges of the Wankel Engine?

  • bags
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Model steam engine lathe and mill with £1,000 budget

  • wolram
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How to learn dynamics from a poor teacher

  • Undergrad-ME
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Spherical Vehicle Design by Michael W. Reed

  • MichaelWReed
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Building a robot that moves and picks up objects with IR sensors

  • CronoSpark
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Build a machine that lifts and transports a load?

  • alexi324
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How Do You Determine Gear Tolerance and Surface Roughness?

  • hanson
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Heat pumps and shape-memory alloys motor

  • magi
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Geothermal Well charachteristics

  • anonymoose
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