Posted Jan 17, 2012, by Travis Mikjaniec
It’s that time of the year, when the weather turns cold and people start to think about winterizing their home to reduce heating costs. Usually it takes the first winter heating bill to provide the motivation to undertake this task. With this in mind, I would like to talk about pipe insulation. Specifically, the foam wrap insulation you can find at any hardware store (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202318552/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053)
In … Read More
Tags:
FloEFD,
Heat Transfer,
CFD,
pipe,
Home Improvement,
insulation
Posted Nov 22, 2011, by Nazita Saye
Have you ever had one of those days where it would have been better to have stayed in bed with the duvet pulled up firmly above your head? I’m sure most of us have had those kinds of days. Last week I was suffering from this malaise. I curbed the front wheel of our new car on the way to work, I dropped my breakfast bagel after taking the first bite (and yes a dropped bagel exhibits the same behavior … Read More
Tags:
FloEFD,
FloTHERM,
CFD,
FloVENT,
Simulation
Posted Oct 14, 2011, by Nazita Saye
For the past few months I’ve been talking about our user meetings – the Mechanical Analysis Division User2User meetings which are taking place all over the world.
The venue was built at the site of an old castle.
I just came back from the meeting in Germany and I can quite honestly say that it was one of the most energizing meetings I’ve attended in a long time. This was a meeting of “firsts”: the … Read More
Tags:
FloTHERM,
Mechanical U2U,
FloEFD,
T3ster
Posted Aug 9, 2011, by John Wilson
Welcome to Part V of a multi-part series, where in this installment Travis takes a look at his lawn mower.
One of my first jobs as a new home owner was to mow the lawn. As it happens, we had a friend with a lawn mower that was no longer using it, so he gave it to us. When I went to pick it up, he was using words like, 1992, and “never maintained”, so I knew it wasn’t going to be a super awesome lawn … Read More
Tags:
FloEFD,
lawn mower,
CFD
Posted Jul 4, 2011, by Nazita Saye
I don’t particularly care for airports. You rush to get to them. You rush thru check-in and push your way thru never-ending queues to go thru security and get the prerequisite pre-boarding massage (I seem to get pat downs as I go thru security a lot and even though I gladly submit to them I’m starting to think that they are a new service that the airlines provide and thus deserve a proper marketing … Read More
Tags:
CFD,
electromagnetic,
Avionics,
ROI,
Thermal Analysis,
FloEFD,
interference
Posted Jun 28, 2011, by Robin Bornoff
As a FloTHERM, FloVENT or FloEFD user you might not realise it but you are part of a global and growing user community. This year we are hosting 3 ‘U2U’ (user to user) meetings in Germany, France and the UK. This is a golden opportunity for you to meet other users, hear about our exciting new products, see fascinating keynote and user presentations, learn advanced software tips and tricks, … Read More
Tags:
U2U,
FloEFD,
user meeting,
FloVENT,
FloTHERM
Posted Jun 16, 2011, by Nazita Saye
I travel a fair bit. Sometimes it’s a short hop across the channel to the Continent and sometimes it’s a long haul flight to the States.
Regardless of whether the flight is one hour, 3 hours or 15 hours, you mentally need to prepare yourself for several things: sitting next to someone with a cold/cough, sitting behind someone who will immediately recline their seat and reduce your usable leg space … Read More
Tags:
FloTHERM,
FloVENT,
FloEFD,
Visualization
Posted Jun 10, 2011, by Boris Marovic
Hello everybody,
I know it’s about time again, I was a little busy with LEDs lately, had some very interesting visits of customers working with LEDs and was working a webinar for use of LEDs in Automotive. You canegister now for this Automotive LED webinar.
But this time it is not about Automotive but about LEDs, I just happened to read an article about Applebee’s plan to switch to LED … Read More
Tags:
Energy Saving,
FloEFD,
Consumer LED,
going green,
LED
Posted Jun 7, 2011, by Nazita Saye
Hi everyone,
I’ve been a bit silent for the past couple of months but there’s a good reason for it. I’ve been working behind the scenes organizing a few events. And now I’m very pleased to announce our upcoming Mechanical U2Us — a series of Mechanical Analysis Division specific User 2 User meetings which will be held around the world. If you are unfamiliar with the Mechanical … Read More
Tags:
FloTHERM,
FloVENT,
FloEFD,
Mechanical U2U
Posted Mar 10, 2011, by Nazita Saye
I’ve been on the road a lot lately. Aside from attending company meetings, I’ve been out meeting our customers. This is perhaps the most enjoyable part of my job – meeting engineers who’ve been using our products to solve real-life problems. In this day and age of tight budgets, we all have learned to do a lot remotely – we send email, speak on the phone, videoconference and watch demos via webex etc. … Read More
Tags:
Design Engineer,
FloEFD,
CFD
