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I am interested to know of any literature available that details the derivation of a finite element in spherical curvelinear co-ordinates. Specifically I am interested in elements for potential problems such as heat conduction. I found a nice paper which developed finite elements in...
Hi There. I am currently in the process of writing some simple radiation heat transfer analysis software. I was wondering if anyone could reccommend a good source for obtaining values of surface emissivity etc. By searching for emissivity on this site I have found reference to a good link...
Hi there. I am trying to model a radiation heat transfer problem using the Monte Carlo Ray Trace method. I have a PhD paper which gives some insight into this, however, I do not have access to Mahan’s book ‘Radiation Heat Transfer: A Statistical Approach’ detailing this method (Only 4 libraries...
Hello there. I'm using a small open jet wind tunnel in order to test 1/10 scale models of a solar powered car. I have been investigating the performance of the cars at yaw angles and have obtained some pretty strange results. One of my theorys is that the cause could be the ground plane boundary...
Hello there. I am currently using a small open jet wind tunnel to test 1/10 scale models of a solar powered car. Unfortunatly the flow quality from the wind tunnel is poor and so considerable vibration of the models and the force balance used is noticed. The vibration seems to be reasonably...
Hi there, I am having big problems trying to join two components in an assembly using the join feature. The components are quite complex and started life as parasolid models generated by a CFD program. The parts are a fighter jet style bubble canopy and a car shape. I have succeded in joining...
Hi there, I am currently working on a part that uses a large design table. It has 20 parrallel planes offset from each other and a sketch with 3 dimensions in each plane. The position of the plane and also the three sketch dimensions are entered into the table for each plane. My problem is that...
Hi there, I would be grateful if anyone had any help on this issue. I wish to insert an number of planes offset to plane 1 in a solidworks part. Is there any way to link the offset distance of the planes to values in the design table I have created? At the moment I just manually insert the...
