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Posts tagged with 'Design of Experiments'

Optimization Or Else

Posted Oct 10, 2009, by John Wilson

Optimization has got to be the most overused word when it comes to my line of work.  If I had to take a guess I would say no more than 1 in 5 optimization claims are anything more than a design study.  It seems to have come to the point that if a person compares two analyses, and one is better, the claim is that it has been optimized.  As someone who scopes the work required for design services I have … Read More

Tags: Design of Experiments, DOE, CFD, Optimization, RSO, FloVENT

Thermal Design Stages-Phase 2

Posted Jun 1, 2009, by John Wilson

About a week ago I wrote the first part of a four part series on how I believe that Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) accelerates thermal design from the “Need” to “Acceptance”, which can be found here.  This second part focuses on the Computer Analysis portion of the process. I’d like to think that I am not remotely experienced enough to know first hand when desktop computers really changed the … Read More

Tags: Thermal Design, FloEFD, Electronics Cooling, Delphi, Design of Experiments