Hot air rises and heat sinks
by Tony Kordyban · first published 1998
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…Imagine solving differential equations numerically using 10,000 cells in Excel, yes, it has been done! There's a nice treatment of how to do this for simple heat transfer problems in Tony Kordyban's Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks. You will amaze and frustrate your co-workers. Excel is 100% the poor man's simulation package. I like Matlab and Simulink a lot better, and if I were 25 again I'd be a fool for Julia, but nothing…
on “My First BillG Review (2006)” ↗> Tony Kordyban's Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks It was a fun book, I don't remember the Excel modeling part though... I do remember seeing something similar on Microwaves101.com by The Unknown Editor... > The spreadsheet has 96 distance steps and…
on “My First BillG Review (2006)” ↗If you're at all interested in this topic, I can't recommend highly enough a little book by Tony Kordyban, Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong. (The sequel, More Hot Air, is good too). The author makes the case, in Chapter 30, that those numbers, which came from MIL-HDBK-217, were pulled…
on “The Centennial Light, a bulb that's reportedly been burning for 113 years” ↗…self-learning, I don't know if anyone would work through the problems in a statics textbook. Shigley looks good. Thanks for that recommendation. For heat transfer, I eventually wound up on the bibliography from Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks by Tony Kordyban, which is more focused on cooling electronics. I have Holman's Heat Transfer on my shelf as a result and I can recommend it for self-learning. One big advantage to Holman: he shows…
on “Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)” ↗