Subtitle: Simulation vs. Design Analysis of OHPs
Brent Cullimore
In 1990, Hisateru Akachi showed in his patent that if you created flow circuits from a coiled, tiny-diameter loops, and filled them part way (say 30-70%) with a volatile working…
Jane Baumann
I like my cup of latte in the morning. However, I am too lazy to go to a local coffee shop and, being a typical…
Brent Cullimore
Tiny Bubbles was a hit song by Don Ho (before even my time). Tiny Density Gradients just won’t make the charts.
But that’s what happens when you take a pure fluid substance to high enough pressure or temperature: the distinction between…
Brent Cullimore
You will of course remember this blog post from almost three years ago, “Why Stratified Tanks Stir Me Up.” I mean, who wouldn’t remember a complaint-ridden, anguish-filled, and slyly-…
Brent Cullimore
First, let’s be clear: I’m not addressing political dysfunction. If that was your first reaction upon seeing this title, then compromising itself has come to have a negative connotation.
I know it sounds better in engineering to call a…
Mark Schmidt
It began with a simple question: How difficult is it to make the <redacted name of a famous fictional armored vehicle made a long time ago in a studio far far away> walk correctly with…
Brent Cullimore
Thanks to fun headlines like “Geysers erupt because they’re all bendy inside,” this paper caught my…
This is the third post of a three-part blog on two-phase heat transport devices. It was supposed to be the final part, but if I get an inkling (and don’t retire first) perhaps I will continue with oscillating pipes or vapor chambers. If I do retire, it has been nice getting to know all of you…
Brent Cullimore
To say that Pythagoras, who lived over 2500 years ago, would be astounded by what I just did in his honor says nothing. I mean, let’s face it: he’d be astounded by kale chips, boomerangs, and tubas.
So I didn’t do it for him. I didn’t do it for…
Brent Cullimore
More than once, I got into an argument with a boss in the 80s. And I almost never had a boss who was a thermal engineer during that decade. They never knew what to do with us thermal people. Systems? Power? Materials? Propulsion? Avionics? Been there,…