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Sizing three turbines for triple expansion of compressed air

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Heat addition process in dual cycle

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How Is Pressure Generated by a Centrifugal Blower Calculated?

  • escape_velocity
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I Want To Make/Fly 10 Aircraft/rotorcraft for the price of 1

  • zephramcochran
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Clip that will auto release under load?

  • researcher
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How aircraft reduce fuel splashes inside a wing

  • Muti
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Twin turbo intercooler pipe merge using air ejector design

  • V8KILR
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Is a balanced magnet-spring harmony a possibility?

  • I'm on a moose.
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How to draw a Nyquist plot by hand and determine stability

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Gear Ratios to Gear Tooth Count

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Calculating Tractive Effort on a Slope: A Case Study

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Resolved Shear Stress Compared w/ Shear Stress-Contradictioni

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Arm blade mechanism for Cosplay

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Vibration problem: natural frequency=resonance?

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How can I calculate the flow rate created by a fan connected to an engine?

  • pigwiddeon
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Orbital Rendezvous and Mission Control Involvement

  • PPERERA
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Is My Approach to Calculating Weld Stress Correct?

  • delsloww88
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Valve lift and variable flow rate in compressed air engines

  • Chotai Nikhil
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How do I estimate price of a design?

  • Butters
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Can an Anti-Lag Turbo Supercharger Increase Engine Efficiency and Performance?

  • voltech444
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Improve Air Flow with Centrifugal Fan Design

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Why does pressure differential decrease with flow rate in a ducted fan?

  • bartrocs
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Proportional control, Integral control

  • broccoli
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Determining the Velocities of a Polygon in a Curve

  • VicenteMMOS
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Could we make a supersonic electric airplane?

  • Brage
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The velocity profile for viscous and non-viscous fluids

  • Amr719
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Axle load verification for firefighter vehicle on IVECO chassis

  • MasterG
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When is the rate of change of momentum equals zero ?

  • Amr719
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Selection of airfoil and sizing of propeller

  • shaft
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Design a coil with a variable pitch but a constant length?

  • brent garson
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Maximum power transfer with piezo and EM generators in parallel

  • QandA4u
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Create Pneumatic Bicycle: High Torque or RPM?

  • Mesmerizer
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Bending of tapered (nonsymmetric) beams

  • FHbabble
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Knee Speed/ Velocity Split for damper

  • hackashack
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Burst/Rupture Disk Capacity - Experimental vs. Theoretical

  • jstluise
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Automotive Combution, energy and pressure relation

  • Byonnem
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Cross-flow Heat Exchanger 2 phase calculation

  • cheetahunter
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How do stacked fans affect airflow and pressure?

  • KrisOhn
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SHPB test on glass-filled composite gives Young's modulus too low

  • Ben_P_1992
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How Does Engine Speed Affect Diesel Injection Timing?

  • Tekneek
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Calculating lift force of a motorised hovercraft

  • orblight
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Will blocking oil flow increase pressure in a hydro-pneumatic intensifier?

  • Yogesh Kulkarni
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I need to turn a 24" flywheel at 500 RPM with a bicycle

  • Tim1876
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Spiral heat exchanger - pressure drop?

  • tensileapple
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Thermal Boundary Layer vs. Hydrodynamic Boundary Layer

  • 0Rion
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Thermodynamics : Open and close control systems

  • jyotish123
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Pressure, Temperature and Fluid phase change

  • Nicky_Boy02
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Physics behind turbochargers and compressors

  • Vlad137
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Understanding specific volume(introductory thermodynamics)

  • wahaj
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How can I get the pressure value inside a solar absorber

  • Basimalasi
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Overlapping geometry in ANSYS fluent

  • tj00343
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ANSYS: What are vibrating feeder's boundary conditions?

  • Butters
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Cantilever Framework Practice Exam Confusion

  • BenC1994
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Pressure gradient term in Navier-Stokes

  • Urmi Roy
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How to -- electric boiler design

  • y2j
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Will Two Water Pumps in Series Output 200 PSI?

  • strk
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The x,y,z coordinates of CM of a solid cylinder

  • HMPARTICLE
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Why not connect regenerator before the pump/compressor

  • AdamA0
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What is the effect on conrod forces?

  • Damo ET
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Gas turbine with rotary screw expanders and water injection

  • voltech444
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Unsteady vorticity transport equation: codes available?

  • bumblebee77
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I have to design accumulator of energy

  • patrycja
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Airflow Calculation for Baghouse Inlet/Outlet Temp 400F/210F

  • DC52
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How to Select a Lightweight Material for a Tricycle Chassis?

  • Hamzah Khan
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Heat Transfer: Thermal Conductivity of Tubes in Aerial Coolers

  • a.m.d
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How Does the Brayton Cycle Work in Gas Turbines?

  • Almunthir
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Self Locking in Worm Drive with lead angle of about 8

  • Yasir Zahoor
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Gas Turbine Afterburner Water Injection

  • voltech444
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Number of degrees of freedom of a double toggle mechanism for punching

  • marellasunny
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Velocity of Fluid flow due to gravity

  • Seth Vogt
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How is torque divided between multiple wheels in a system with friction?

  • Jared94
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How to calculate how many threads I can use?

  • perky416
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How much effort to lift a human being?

  • Quinton Powell
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What is a good power source for a personal flying machine?

  • Quinton Powell
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Calculating gear ratios for a stepper-driven analog clock

  • Addohm
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Absorptive type sound insulation

  • mrajkumar
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Static vs kinetic friction in a fully engaged clutch

  • knight92
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Eliminating use for lubrication in an engine?

  • Paul J. Daniels
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Automotive Wind tunnel to do smoke testing of my Formula Vee racing car

  • Jam 1959
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Why are carburetors being replaced with fuel injection in cars?

  • Vatsal Sanjay
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What are the features of natural frequency vibro-conveyor?

  • Butters
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How to determine fracture toughness Kic from a punch test?

  • IB7899
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Effect on room temperature of a fridge

  • varun atri
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Energy lost due to bushing friction

  • George Zucas
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Multiple distributed loads on a beam

  • sms22
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Why natural frequency conveyors are not dangerous?

  • Butters
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Spec yield and ult strengths - true or engineering stress?

  • blue24
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Gas Turbine: Full Load/Part Load Understanding

  • koolraj09
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How do you tell ANSYS to analyze a spring instead of solid metal?

  • Ameya Joshi
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Meshing Parameters for Wind Turbine Blade with 3 Airfoils

  • lazarus178
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Brainstorming for a self-directed class project

  • Cygnus_A
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Why does choking an engine help it start in cold weather?

  • AcidRainLiTE
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Where can I get standard data for motion time study?

  • Fady Alphons
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Calculation to find the torque required to start an engine

  • akshai
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Friction loss to vertical pipes in a closed system?

  • TSN79
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Pipe wall thickness, barlow equation problem

  • rottweiler123
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Function of an accumulator with a pump

  • hybro
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Simulation of small satellite dynamics in software

  • Datri
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How Does Fe-Safe Compute Life Fatigue in Harmonic Analysis?

  • salwacheg
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