Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 3 – It Takes Time

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 3 – It Takes Time

Dylan in his original YouTube video made the point that the tea lights only burn for about 4 hours and…

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 2 – Thermal Interception

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 2 – Thermal Interception

We often do things that we intuitively feel are beneficial, often without realising just why. One of the beauties of…

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 1 – Really?

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 1 – Really?

Dylan Winter, boat owner, film maker and blogger, made a youtube video about a year ago (2022 edit: now removed as…

CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions

CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions

By way of an apology for the more verbose blogs I’ve been issuing recently I’d like to present you with…

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models

Electronics cooling simulation was born out of the world of CFD, rather fully conjugate heat transfer simulation where convective, radiative…

“Why Cartesian Grids Are Good”

“Why Cartesian Grids Are Good”

I put the title in quotes as it’s the title of a blog post by John Chawner at Pointwise who…

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 5: Get a Job

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 5: Get a Job

Effective use of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation tool requires at least a working knowledge of fluid dynamics itself….

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 3: 13% Better

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 3: 13% Better

Conventional wisdom has it that the best place to put a radiator in a room is under the window. However,…

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 2: PMV and other TLAs

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 2: PMV and other TLAs

Sometime between 40 and 100 thousand years ago humans started to wear clothes, an estimate as accurate as you’d expect…