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Flat plate heat exchanger - Hand calculations help

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Optimizing Efficiency: Multirotors vs Single Rotors in RC Copters

  • basheer uddin
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Pumping water up without electricity

  • Phyta
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What Is the Electrical Conductivity of R11?

  • y2j
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What should I do if didn't find the given pressure?

  • Amr719
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Center of gravity/moment of inertia

  • Musica
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Fuel Cells; PEMFC; Cause of Proton Movement

  • Menninger
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How to calculate the flat plate thickness to withstand25kpsi

  • syed ali
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What is the ideal damper for a passenger car suspension?

  • hackashack
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Motor that can move possibly up to 4kg

  • CJNight15
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Container stack height on a ship: Mechanical strength

  • rollingstein
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How can I remove steam from exhaust gases?

  • physior
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How to calculate the circulation flow in makeup water

  • Vicky057
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Would a 4'x8'x1' piece of glass be able to contain 60psi?

  • Physt
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Calculation of the tangential forces in a turbine blade

  • Alex734
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Can You Share Design Tips for Bolted Joints That Won't Loosen?

  • jstluise
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Plate fin tube heat exchanger design procedure

  • y2j
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Automotive As a mechanical project we have been asked to design a micro steam car

  • Ronand
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Off-Road Snorkel head direction, does it matter?

  • FJ Moose
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What is an I55 beam and how does it compare to other common beam types?

  • George Zucas
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Linear reaction force on motors?

  • PhiowPhi
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Calculate Ovality of Circular Hole - Formula & Reference

  • Kishan Majethia
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Is work done in adiabatic process quasi static or not?

  • sharma1994
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Burt Rutan's newest aircraft design - the SkiGull

  • aaronhowell
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Servo vs ? for lift/winch/hoist

  • Vanbot
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Flow Rate, Velocity and Pressure relationship

  • smithson1984
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Lateral compression of rectangular tube

  • Colnago
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Black holes and mechanical engineers

  • Gandhara
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Finding Small Machined Springs for Probes

  • _Bd_
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Good books on propulsion systems?

  • Orbyt
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Pressure Added to a Flow Loop by a Pump?

  • shauntur
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Where in the world can i purchase a A ram air turbine Rat_

  • georgesantos
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Choked Flow in 1/4" Pressure Regulator at 3.5bar

  • Suresh Gadekar
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Centrifugal Vacuum: Is Mach 1.0 the Limit?

  • blainiac
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Resultant force acting on axial compressor

  • Ketler
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Pumpable slurries What concentration?

  • rollingstein
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Maintaining liquid level inside a vessel of boiling liquid

  • rollingstein
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How to find the depth of immersion of this boat model?

  • PrincessIceFall
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Need help re: air pressure to fluid pressure

  • RobA
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How to calculate the size of a gusset

  • Raoul83
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Question about stall warning system

  • Boeing707
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Table saws, back tooth kickback and flying lumber

  • Cabmaker
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Downforce Calculation for a wing Formula Source

  • al_garnett
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Forces of a bolt that bottoms out in a blind hole

  • igotzshoes
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M&E Engineer Needs Electrical Basics | Learn Here

  • surendran90
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Calculating Deflection & Mode Shape in 3-Segment Plate

  • Tracy
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Calc Oblique Shock Angle for Supersonic Flow 0-5 Degrees

  • Harry Fry
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Some help on Compressed Air Energy Storage

  • Evanish
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Pneumatic Cylinder testing for leaks

  • PiNgWiZaRd
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How Can I Prevent My Aluminium Plates from Bending During Embossing?

  • malume
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Help calculating moments for a small crane-like machine

  • chavan
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Can Air Flow 10Lit/Sec in 6.35mm Pipe @ 1Bar?

  • Suresh Gadekar
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Build Pop Can Catapult: 10m High, 15m Far w/ High School Physics

  • George Mihaylov
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Air Flow Rate in 1/4" Pipe at 1 Bar Pressure

  • Suresh Gadekar
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How to get Von Mises stress for section on Abaqus

  • cfoley
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0.2% Offset vs. 0.5% Extension Under Load Yield Strength

  • George Zucas
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Coefficient of Friction in a V-Belt System -- Torque Changes?

  • PizzaWizza
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Automotive How much power does my car actually need to maintain speed?

  • Schtoogie
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Is the mass flow rate in a regenerative vapor power cycle constant?

  • PhyIsOhSoHard
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How to reduce RH of air from evaporative cooler?

  • piggupiggu
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How can I use Pneumatic Muscles as Hydraulic Muscles?

  • Warren Pnigel
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Air Pressure Regulator velocity

  • Suresh Gadekar
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What Are the Dimensions of a 6.35 mm x 12 mm Shaft Coupling?

  • LickMyEyeball
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What does the centric force means ?

  • Amr719
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Max Load Capacity: Calculating Total Torque for Dual Servo Motors

  • Quarck_boson
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Increase stepper motor voltage past rated

  • DannyMoretz
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What does it by parametric instability?

  • jollage
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Is a hollowed out fuselage ideal?

  • yrjosmiel73
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Pressure requirements for Air Motor

  • Jameseyboy
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Tolerence measurement +0.02 to + 0.05

  • raynee
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Vertical movement of heating plate

  • Being Anil
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How to Calculate Power Transmission in a V-Belt Pulley System?

  • PizzaWizza
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How to calculate natural frequency of a circular plate

  • spggodd
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Hydraulic Diameter: Calculate & Understand It

  • leonita
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Ultrasonic crack detection in glass bottles

  • dc878787
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Koenigsegg Regera - acceleration

  • jnnx
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Independent calibration of structure and load cell?

  • Heals
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Converting linear clamping force to torque Ft/in

  • Rkaltz
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Building a Robot Like Tars from Interstellar

  • mohamed khairy
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Learning About Reciprocating Compressors for Oil & Gas Engineers

  • Tesla90
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Problems in explicit dynamics simulation in ANSYS Workbench

  • german9011
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Brayton cycle combustion process

  • ehabmozart
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Problems in automotive engineering

  • physior
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Automotive X shaped roof profile for small series car-production method

  • marellasunny
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Help with text book (vibration)

  • MMCS
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Difference between acoustic pressure and fluid pressure

  • Saumya Kar
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Comparing Abaqus/Patran/Nastran for FEM Analysis

  • theOrange
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How to configure a T connection for graywater collection

  • DannySmythe
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Determine the Rate of Change of Pressure Across a Valve

  • Purple_Dan
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How can I calculate the vacuum pressure in Y-junction?

  • cajamarcus
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Creating pressure with hot plate

  • AJ129
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Any help about ORC (organic Rankine cycle)

  • y2j
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Please explain curious behavior with my rainwater barrel

  • DannySmythe
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Ball Bearing Selection for Wheel Hubs

  • Gustavo Altieri
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Creating a spring using only beams

  • Kristopher Horn
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Trying to build an ultrasonic drill

  • K_Mitchell
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Viscous damping acting on rotating disk

  • bisherbas
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Essential Aerodynamics Terms for Beginners

  • yrjosmiel73
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Calculate force to lift piston from a given closing pressure

  • CraigH
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