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  • The film boiling of water

    Check out this neat animation created in COMSOL multiphysics software that studies the film boiling of water. The ''Leidenfrost point'' referred to is the lowest temperature at which a hot body submerged in a pool of boiling water is completely blanketed by a vapor film. There is a minimum in the heat flux from the body to the water at ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on January 17, 2009
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about FEA

    John Dunec at COMSOL recently explained the various kinds of analysis. He says:   There are different classes of analysis. A large structure such as a bridge can be done with all of them. The most basic is the so-called ''back of the envelope'' analysis. It can be extremely sophisticated. An example comes from ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on February 6, 2008