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Stefan and the Polar Ice Caps
Melting of polar ice caps is a topic of current interest due to global warming and its impact. But not long back in human history, in times of lesser pollution and implication, the inverse problem of … more →
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The Independence-Day-Discussion: FdA1-A2
abishekblogs wrote 1 month ago: It was 14th of August 2005, and I was in Research room-II, (Prof. Katte’s office) working on my firs … more →
Stefan and the Polar Ice Caps
Arunn wrote 3 months ago: Melting of polar ice caps is a topic of current interest due to global warming and its impact. But n … more →
Nusselt, Biot numbers and Özisik
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Arunn wrote 3 months ago: The non-dimensional representation of the convection heat transfer coefficient ‘h’ is id … more →
Stefan and the T to the fourth power law
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Arunn wrote 3 months ago: The working of Stefan’s diathermometer to measure the thermal conductivity was explained earlier. He … more →
Stefan and the Diathermometer
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Arunn wrote 3 months ago: Once in a while, it is useful to revisit the history of inventions and discoveries that we now take … more →
Effect of Temperature-Dependent Viscosity in Porous Medium Flows
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Arunn wrote 7 months ago: In channel or pipe flows, one of the engineering interest is the required pump power for pushing a f … more →
Notes on Scale Analysis for Flat Plate Forced Convection
Arunn wrote 8 months ago: This note is meant for my graduate students and for those who have a passing interest in convection … more →
Paper Read List Oct 2008
Arunn wrote 8 months ago: If your research interests doesn’t involve convection, fluid flow, porous media, bio-heat tran … more →
Heat Transfer in Selective Laser Sintering
Arunn wrote 8 months ago: Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is an additive process for rapidly preparing prototype parts by fusi … more →
My Laptop Heat Sink
Arunn wrote 9 months ago: One may come up with efficient thermal management designs for cooling electronics in portable comput … more →
Paper Read List Sep 2008
Arunn wrote 9 months ago: If your research interests doesn’t overlap with mine, you may not find this list useful. Thermal Liq … more →
Paper Read List Aug 2008
Arunn wrote 11 months ago: If your research interests doesn’t overlap with mine, you may not find this list useful. Thermal The … more →
Boiling Song by the Kitchen Band
Arunn wrote 11 months ago: Here is the rambunctious boiling song from the one and only kitchen band. [Boiling Song MP3 File. Si … more →
Convection Carnot Engine
Arunn wrote 11 months ago: Convection can be distinguished into two types: forced and natural or free [1]. When thermal gradien … more →
Is Brayton Cycle THE ideal Gas Turbine Cycle ???
abishekblogs wrote 11 months ago: I STRONGLY DISAGREE BRAYTON CYCLE BEING MENTIONED AS “THE” IDEAL CYCLE FOR GAS TURBINE A … more →
Scale Analysis
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Arunn wrote 1 year ago: Scale analysis or order of magnitude analysis is a back of the envelope [1] method for deriving the … more →
First Law and Fourier Law
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Arunn wrote 1 year ago: First Law of thermodynamics relates heat transfer, work transfer and internal energy of a body. Four … more →
Optimization and Genetic Algorithms
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Arunn wrote 1 year ago: When we say we want to optimize some situation or a solution for a problem, we usually mean we are l … more →
2008 Heat Transfer Gallery and Cell Freezing
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Arunn wrote 1 year ago: American Society of Mechanical Engineers every year publishes a heat transfer gallery of pictures, c … more →
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