Heat Transfer

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Airbus Evaluates Friction Stir WeldingAerospace Industry:
Airbus Evaluates Friction Stir Welding

Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an alternate way to joining metals, which also provides stronger welds. Dr. Paul Colegrove reports on the benefits of FSW, and...

Get Your Free Neutrons at ORNL!Reactor Physics:
Get Your Free Neutrons at ORNL!

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
"Free" neutrons are hardly free at all when it comes to money - actually, it takes enormously sophisticated equipment to create them, and only a handful of...

Designing the Retina for an Eye Towards the PastSpace Exploration:
Designing the Retina for an Eye Towards the Past

SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research), Utrecht, Netherlands
XEUS (The X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectrometer) is a mission being conducted by the European Space Agency with the goal of gaining a better view of the...

Clearing the Air: Life Support for Space ExplorationAerospace Industry:
Clearing the Air: Life Support for Space Exploration

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
At the Life Support Systems Development Team, our task is to develop robust, life support systems for long duration space travel, such as lunar exploration...

Model Examples

Continuous Casting: This example models the casting process of a metal rod from melted to solid state using the... Boiling Water: Boiling flow is an example of phase transition initiated by raising the temperature of a liquid above its...
Convection Cooking of Chicken Patties: When cooking food, such as a patty, in convection ovens there is a trade off in... Turbulent Flow Through a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger: This model studies a part of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger...
NOx Reduction in a Monolithic Reactor: This suite of examples illustrate the modeling of selective NO reduction, that... Free Convection in a Light Bulb: This model treats the free convection of argon gas within a light bulb. It shows the...
A Transient Analysis of Freeze-drying: Freeze-drying, or lyophilization, is a process for drying heat-sensitive... Free Convection in Porous Media: This example treats the modeling of sub-surface flow where free convection in porous...
Free Convection in a Water Glass: This model treats the free convection and heat transfer of a glass of cold water... Friction Stir Welding of an Aluminum Plate: In friction stir welding, a rotating tool moves along the weld joint and...
Phase Separation: Phase separation occurs when a binary system is quenched from its stable, homogeneous one-phase state... Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Heat Exchangers: This model builds and solves a conduction and convection heat transfer...
Heat Transfer by Free Convection: This example describes a fluid flow problem with heat transfer in the fluid. An array... Surface Resistor: Thermo-Mechanical Analysis: The drive for miniaturizing electronic devices has resulted in today’s...