Does thermal conduction happen in space? If not why?

If I suspend a copper rod and heat it at one end does that transfer heat to another end through vibration of molecules?

06 July 2018 2,529 6 View

How many icepak windows/files can be open with a single icepak license that is on server?

Before upgrading to icepak 18.2 was using icepak 16.2 and it was able to open two files at the same time, so I was able to give run in one and use another one for setting up another project. But...

10 November 2017 6,527 0 View

How does a mustard propel in hot oil?

How does this reaction happen that makes the mustard move around in certain path, is there a pattern for this?

10 November 2017 4,424 3 View

If we pay someone to do the art work for a conference paper, should I reference or give credit to them in the paper?

If I ask someone to create an art work of my idea should I reference that image.

09 October 2017 9,793 6 View

How to solve non-positive volume cells mesh issue in icepak?

Exact message "Warning: The mesh contains non-positive volume cells.This must be fixed before solve." The model is made up of .igs CAD file import. It has curved surfaces. Is there a way to check...

06 July 2017 389 4 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

How to define and get results (stresses) for certain points of a model in abaqus, using python? When the size of the model changes?

I want to do a parameter study of a aixsymmetric cylinder in Abaqus. I want to create several jobs where I get the stresses for 3 different points in my model. These points are defined. I wrote a...

01 March 2021 10,078 1 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How UAV or drone can be beneficial to better estimate crop yield?

As we know, crop yield estimation has been done traditionally with farmer's expert knowledge, deductive sampling in representative areas, and remote sensing with satellite imagery. Farmer's Expert...

01 March 2021 3,468 3 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 View