Jane Baumann
For much of my career I was fortunate enough to work in the world of heat pipes and loop heat pipes. While working in the Aerospace industry many years ago, I would often get a phone call from a program with a thermal problem. I would walk into their…
Brent Cullimore
This is a story of how one bird drains while another bird drinks.
The bird that drains is a commercial airliner.
The bird that drinks is a toy. Though I really wish it had been this chirpy chap:
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Mark Schmidt
...and other advances in thermal modeling from our humble beginnings with slide rules to advanced new curved elements developed specifically for thermal analysis…
Brent Cullimore
You are hiking in the Serengeti. A twig snaps in bushes a few feet away from you. Is it the wind, or a lion?
As someone whose ancestors jumped to a worst-case conclusion (and as a result were less likely to become someone else’s lunch), we…
Brent Cullimore
Let me start by confessing that I don’t know much about Bitcoin, much less Bitcoin mining. I’m not even sure you can refer to them as ‘Bitcoins’ if you have two of them. You certainly can’t rub them together and make sparks. (They are sparks,…
Brent Cullimore
I admit that I have chafed in the past at being called a thermal engineer. I have degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Thermosciences. I consider myself more of a fluid/thermodynamics type: I love bubbles, and I think it is a sin if you stir cream…
Brent Cullimore
I was told that, after a few years of producing this blog, our true identity would become evident. At least if we were true to ourselves, and if we didn’t just turn this into blatant marketing and self-indulgent yakety yak.
Instead of…