Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 4 – Comfort Temperature

Heat Your Home Office for 8p (10cents) a Day. Part 4 – Comfort Temperature

Have you ever wondered why, after a cold winter’s night, some of your car windows are iced over whilst others…

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…

“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 4: Premature Simulation

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 4: Premature Simulation

One thing the Mechanical Analysis Division is not guilty of is vendor hubris. Despite the passion we have about our…

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…

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room. Part 1: Such Things are Important

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room. Part 1: Such Things are Important

With the gulf stream having shifted south and now flowing happily somewhere high over Paris, the summer weather in the…

Agile software development practices in the Mechanical Analysis Division

Agile software development practices in the Mechanical Analysis Division

From a software user’s perspective it really doesn’t matter exactly how that application was developed. A user is concerned with…