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Heat Loss of Hot Air: Get the Facts on Temperature & Insulation

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Pressurizing Argon Gas: Pump or Compressor Options?

  • Shirish g
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Can you give every-day examples of how statics work?

  • dahoa
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What is the difference between nozzle (or a ventury) and flow control valve?

  • Mohankpvk
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Automotive Exhaust brake for gasoline engines

  • HeyJoe
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Relationship between volumetric flow rate and pressure

  • Roy S Ramirez
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Automotive The effect of a flywheel on a car's launch

  • Emre
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Vibration of a mass connected via preloaded spring

  • sfensphan
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Hydraulic Head Loss (minor) loss coefficient References?

  • Oleg Fomin
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Refrigerant Storage in Off System: Gas or Liquid?

  • M.Kalai vanan
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How Do You Calculate Miller Stability in Excel?

  • cody g
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Help with calulating a cyclic rate

  • Senngenn
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How to calculate the force required to lift an object into the air (helicopter)

  • SIDDHARTH MANWANI
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Discharge of a Pressure Vessel Containing Liquid Nitrous Oxide

  • Alexander Fernandes
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Comparison of thermal shock profiles

  • mrajkumar
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Steel support frame for a freestanding loft

  • ClaytonBarton
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Puzzling issue in gas mileage improvement

  • Ketch22
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When the COP of refrigerator is greater or less than 1?

  • Mozaix
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Total energy (ETOTAL) is not zero and increasing (Abaqus)?

  • hari123
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Automotive Calculation of the efficiency of an engine

  • vroy
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What Are Tolerances on Dimensions with Deviations in DIN 16901?

  • patehi
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Why Doesn't My Air Purifier Have a Suction Feeling at the Intake?

  • kyphysics
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Cooling System-What is the main purpose of the Compressor

  • JME23
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How to slow down a battery wall clock from the 1960's

  • John1397
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Derivation of EoM for two interconnected rigid bodies

  • RubinLicht
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Automotive Torque Convertors: A Physics Puzzle

  • Rx7man
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Effect of load and load distance on peak and avg power

  • Mark-01
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Compound lever: Best fulcrum location to increase mechanical advantage

  • NewEnglander
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Measure the max angle of a 3D pendulum

  • cuallito
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Compressed air, heat and pressure?

  • Ed Lenarduzzi
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Seawater sample temperature control – heat exchanger design

  • thereddevil
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Fan Performance and Pressure Distribution in Parallel Centrifugal Fans

  • Mech_guy_al
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Multi-Stage Pump: Understanding Flow Rate & Head

  • ron_adigross
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Some points about a vortex tube

  • T C
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Cooling load calculations for hotel rooms

  • tj00889
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Force required to stop a given torque

  • bijoy Thomas
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Ideas to prevent falling - Drawing attached

  • tbaron27
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Automotive Connecting a drive wheel to a second wheel

  • Fizzics
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Bicep curling spring device questions

  • SilverJW
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What causes pressure in form drag?

  • JTC
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Flow Rate of Liquid O2 Cylinder w/ 24 Bar Pressure

  • Vedoc
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Automotive How can I accurately determine the necessary wattage for a motor in my vehicle?

  • Gnana guru
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Stress intensity factor using Ansys APDL for a 3D plate

  • Sagar Thakre
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Water / steam homogeneous mixture

  • T C
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How long will it take for compressed air to reach 29 psi?

  • Matt13
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Laminar to turbulent flow transition

  • Anashim
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Why are 3 planes needed to define stress at a point?

  • Sirius
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Natural frequency in stationary and rotating frames....

  • tricha122
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Automotive Hydrogen Car Fuel Tank: Preventing Permeation & Valve Check

  • chemisthypnos
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Methods to convert linear movement to circular

  • physea
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Ansys Workbench - Beam 188 and Link 180 element - together?

  • SukiLeinen
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Static pressure in a water pipe system

  • Frasarn
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Which is harder to pull apart, a circle or a triangle?

  • AmateurHour
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Will the liquid flow split evenly at a T-junction?

  • Nicotik
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Solution approaches for large strain mechanics

  • bcl
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Rotordynamics: unbalance loads due to displacement - FEA

  • tricha122
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Why pressure decreases during isothermal expansion?

  • Mohankpvk
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How to evaluate pure Mode-II SIF using Abaqus?

  • Sagar Thakre
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Can a magnetic field create a force on non-magnetic object

  • Nithin naidu
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Cooling & Heating Load Calcs for Passive Chilled Beam Systems in Hotels

  • tj00343
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The diameter of the exhaust nozzle of jet engines

  • royp
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How is static torque calculated for constant speed?

  • NewtonianAlch
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Air resistance: cylindrical rotor in stator with air gap

  • Joep van de ven
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Pressure drop does not match theory

  • Omish
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When does a cantilever beam fail in reality?

  • Thomas Plank
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Temperature drop in an insulated pipe over 12 hours

  • Mark Deuchars
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Force required for cutting sheet metal

  • eng_taha_a
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Equivalence of torque & angular velocity transfer function

  • Alex Paul
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Valve to vent entire volume upon reaching a set pressure

  • nlis12
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How can I modify this drawing to have fail safe

  • Keeeen
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Operation of this hydraulic circuit?

  • Keeeen
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Automotive How to calculate brake power in IC engines?

  • Vijayent
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Steel hardness vs yield or ultimate strength?

  • JAG-E
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Stresses on penstock supported by ring girder

  • Zohra
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Difference between a propeller and a fan

  • D.B.SriHridai
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Supersonic vs Suborbital planes?

  • Algr
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Automotive Would someone help with a flow simulation?

  • Killavolt
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Stiffness matrix for elastic materials

  • doubled132
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Determination of delivery pressure from pump

  • kunalvanjare
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Geometry of a slot punch

  • Osvaldo
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Calculate Torque Needed for 100lb 11ft Propellor @ 1RPM

  • Metahedron
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Why Is the Calculated Velocity for Lifting a Person in a Wind Tunnel So Low?

  • Suyash Singh
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Angular velocity inside a vortex tube

  • T C
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Understanding Propane Heater Behavior: Causes and Solutions

  • DaveC426913
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Finite difference conjugate heat xfer: internal flow

  • pm272
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Blower fitted with De Laval Nozzle

  • T C
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How to calculate the pressure on a piston in a damper system?

  • LogNels
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Boundary layer thickness confusion

  • MexChemE
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What type of motor would have the highest Stalled Torque?

  • Sergio Trigos
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Heat transfer in a fin with constant volume

  • Kevin Spears
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Negative Heat Sink thermal resistance

  • TeddyLu
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Compressed air flowrate calculation

  • Durgaprasad123
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Load analysis on a motorcross bike - need some advice

  • DanielSu
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Is this Cylinder Strong Enough to Open This Door?

  • Hes
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Heat Engine Efficiency and Entropy

  • UMath1
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