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Adjusting the pressure drop in an injection plate
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Can Einstein Index Notation Help Me Solve Equations in Continuum Mechanics?
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Pressurizing Argon Gas: Pump or Compressor Options?
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Can you give every-day examples of how statics work?
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What is the difference between nozzle (or a ventury) and flow control valve?
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Automotive Exhaust brake for gasoline engines
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Relationship between volumetric flow rate and pressure
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Automotive The effect of a flywheel on a car's launch
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Vibration of a mass connected via preloaded spring
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Hydraulic Head Loss (minor) loss coefficient References?
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How Do You Calculate Miller Stability in Excel?
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Help with calulating a cyclic rate
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How to calculate the force required to lift an object into the air (helicopter)
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Discharge of a Pressure Vessel Containing Liquid Nitrous Oxide
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Comparison of thermal shock profiles
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Steel support frame for a freestanding loft
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Puzzling issue in gas mileage improvement
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Total energy (ETOTAL) is not zero and increasing (Abaqus)?
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Automotive Calculation of the efficiency of an engine
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Why Doesn't My Air Purifier Have a Suction Feeling at the Intake?
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How to slow down a battery wall clock from the 1960's
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Derivation of EoM for two interconnected rigid bodies
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Automotive Torque Convertors: A Physics Puzzle
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Effect of load and load distance on peak and avg power
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Compound lever: Best fulcrum location to increase mechanical advantage
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Seawater sample temperature control – heat exchanger design
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Fan Performance and Pressure Distribution in Parallel Centrifugal Fans
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Multi-Stage Pump: Understanding Flow Rate & Head
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Some points about a vortex tube
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Cooling load calculations for hotel rooms
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Force required to stop a given torque
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Ideas to prevent falling - Drawing attached
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Automotive Connecting a drive wheel to a second wheel
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Bicep curling spring device questions
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What causes pressure in form drag?
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How can I calculate the Reynolds number if the particle velocity is unknown?
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Automotive How can I accurately determine the necessary wattage for a motor in my vehicle?
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Stress intensity factor using Ansys APDL for a 3D plate
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Water / steam homogeneous mixture
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How long will it take for compressed air to reach 29 psi?
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Laminar to turbulent flow transition
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Why are 3 planes needed to define stress at a point?
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Natural frequency in stationary and rotating frames....
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Automotive Hydrogen Car Fuel Tank: Preventing Permeation & Valve Check
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Methods to convert linear movement to circular
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Ansys Workbench - Beam 188 and Link 180 element - together?
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Static pressure in a water pipe system
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Which is harder to pull apart, a circle or a triangle?
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Will the liquid flow split evenly at a T-junction?
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Solution approaches for large strain mechanics
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Why pressure decreases during isothermal expansion?
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How to evaluate pure Mode-II SIF using Abaqus?
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Can a magnetic field create a force on non-magnetic object
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Cooling & Heating Load Calcs for Passive Chilled Beam Systems in Hotels
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The diameter of the exhaust nozzle of jet engines
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How is static torque calculated for constant speed?
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Air resistance: cylindrical rotor in stator with air gap
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Pressure drop does not match theory
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When does a cantilever beam fail in reality?
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Maximizing Vacuum Power: Understanding the Effects of Parallel Vacuum Sources
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Force required for cutting sheet metal
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Equivalence of torque & angular velocity transfer function
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Valve to vent entire volume upon reaching a set pressure
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How can I modify this drawing to have fail safe
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Operation of this hydraulic circuit?
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Automotive How to calculate brake power in IC engines?
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Steel hardness vs yield or ultimate strength?
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Stresses on penstock supported by ring girder
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Difference between a propeller and a fan
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Supersonic vs Suborbital planes?
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Automotive Would someone help with a flow simulation?
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Stiffness matrix for elastic materials
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Determination of delivery pressure from pump
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Geometry of a slot punch
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Calculate Torque Needed for 100lb 11ft Propellor @ 1RPM
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Why Is the Calculated Velocity for Lifting a Person in a Wind Tunnel So Low?
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Angular velocity inside a vortex tube
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Finite difference conjugate heat xfer: internal flow
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Need help with shredder calculations -- Plastic bottle shredder forces....
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Blower fitted with De Laval Nozzle
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How to calculate the pressure on a piston in a damper system?
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Boundary layer thickness confusion
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What type of motor would have the highest Stalled Torque?
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Heat transfer in a fin with constant volume
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Negative Heat Sink thermal resistance
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Compressed air flowrate calculation
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Load analysis on a motorcross bike - need some advice
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Is this Cylinder Strong Enough to Open This Door?
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Heat Engine Efficiency and Entropy
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Thermodynamic properties of a liquid-gas mixture
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Second law efficiency of Rankine cycle
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Energy of Waste Heat: Is Exergy of Steam Less?
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Unnecessary Pump in a Frictionless Pipe: Impact on Pressure and Work
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How can i calculate the velocity in a wind tunnel
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What types of stresses are present on the bolted plate in this project?
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ANSYS APDL 18.2 - Symmetric Stiffened Plate
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Calculating the forces on a crankshaft assembly
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Stagnation point and a water dam
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Plotting a Power Graph using Torque & RPM
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Heat exchanger and the second principle
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