List of All Blog Posts

12/14/2019	Rule-of-Thumb: 2 sec/mile/pound
11/16/2019	Rule-of-Thumb: 100 Cal/mile
10/12/2019	More Running Uphill
9/28/2019	Running Uphill
6/15/2019	Thermal Conductivity
5/18/2019	Specific Heat: cp and cv
4/20/2019	Bicycling Downhill
3/16/2019	More Bicycling Uphill
2/23/2019	Bicycling Uphill
11/17/2018	Cheeseburgers per hour?
10/13/2018	Cheeseburgers per day?
9/15/2018	How Many Calories in a Cheeseburger?
8/18/2018	Applied Contact Temperature
7/21/2018	Snow Sublimation
6/16/2018	More Lumped Capacitance
5/19/2018	Lumped Capacitance Revisited
4/14/2018	Refrigerant 718
3/17/2018	The Ideal Gas Law and the Superheated Region
2/17/2018	The Ideal Gas Law and the Steam Dome
12/16/2017	Using Pipe Curve Models
11/18/2017	Inverting the Pipe Curve
10/14/2017	Mary, Mary, How does your dewpoint vary?
9/16/2017	Heat from Breath, Part 2
8/19/2017	Heat from Breath
7/15/2017	Buoyancy
6/17/2017	The Cyclic Relation
5/20/2017	Moisture and the Speed of Sound
4/22/2017	Moisture and Altitude
3/18/2017	Vizualizing Thunderstorm Heat
2/4/2017	A Cold Snap, Part 2
1/30/2017	A Cold Snap
12/24/2016	Altitude vs Temperature
11/19/2016	Water from Air
10/22/2016	Finite Quench Revisited
9/24/2016	Sizes of Power
8/20/2016	Potential for Evaporative Precoolers
7/23/2016	An Evaporative Pre-cooler
6/25/2016	Fundamentals of Thermal Resistance
5/21/2016	Error using constant specific heat
4/16/2016	Which cp to use?
3/12/2016	Water Lost Through Breathing, Part 2
2/13/2016	Water Lost Through Breathing
1/2/2016	Tire Heating on Landing, Part 2
12/19/2015	Tire Heating on Landing
11/14/2015	Heat Transfer in the Kitchen, Part 3
10/17/2015	Heat Transfer in the Kitchen, Part 2
9/26/2015	Heat Transfer in the Kitchen
8/15/2015	Water in the Exhaust, Part 2
7/18/2015	Water in the Exhaust
6/20/2015	Adiabatic Flame Temperature
5/16/2015	Is Incompressible Good Enough?
4/11/2015	Evaporative Cooling
3/21/2015	Condensation from the Atmosphere
2/14/2015	Compression Ignition Engines
1/10/2015	Refrigerators and Cryotherapy
12/13/2014	Duhamel's Theorem, Part 2
11/22/2014	Leveraging Solutions with Duhamel's Theorem
10/18/2014	The Standard Atmosphere
9/13/2014	Fortuitous Properties of Cold Water
7/19/2014	Specific Heat Ratio
6/14/2014	Compression Heating of a Gas
5/10/2014	Quenching in a Finite Bath
4/12/2014	An Alternate View of Condensation
3/1/2014	Thermal Gradients from Quenching
2/8/2014	Isothermal and Isoflux Boundary Conditions
1/4/2014	Laser Melting of a Plastic
12/7/2013	More Useful Lumps (Part 2)
11/2/2013	More Useful Lumps
10/12/2013	A Thermodynamics Class Project
9/21/2013	Keep Turning Up the Hot Water!
8/26/2013	How Long Should I Wait to Shower?
6/1/2013	Who Used All the Hot Water?
5/4/2013	Convection Heat Transfer
4/6/2013	Pressure Cookers at Altitude
3/2/2013	How big is the heat flow?
2/2/2013	Freezing water on a warm night
1/4/2013	From the ground...down (part 3)
12/3/2012	From the ground...down (part 2)
11/1/2012	From the ground...down
10/2/2012	Thermal Explosions
9/5/2012	Hot (or Cold) to the Touch
7/4/2012	Approx. vs. Exact Solutions in Heat Transfer (part 2)
6/12/2012	Approximate vs. Exact Solutions in Heat Transfer
5/15/2012	Liquid-piston dynamometers
4/26/2012	A Solar-powered Fluidyne Test Bed
2/15/2012	Liquid-piston Stirling Engines
1/27/2012	Capital Costs and Renewable Energy
12/13/2011	Free Surface Profile of a Circular Hydraulic Jump
9/30/2011	Transient Heat Transfer Overview
9/19/2011	Considering (or not) Graduate School?
8/29/2011	Design of a Low-cost, Active Evaporation System
4/15/2011	Ground-source Heat Engine Prototype Design and Test
4/1/2011	Parameter Simplification
3/17/2011	Transient Heat Transfer from a Buried Pipe
3/4/2011	The Second Law of Thermodynamics (part 3)
2/18/2011	The Second Law of Thermodynamics (part 2)
2/4/2011	The Second Law of Thermodynamics
1/25/2011	Temperature Estimates for High Speed Wear Testing
1/13/2011	Thermal Modeling of Transient Heat Transfer in Tissue