Heat Transfer Blog Posts
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Preventing Airborne Infection with CFD Modeling
Healthcare-associated infections affect millions of people around the globe. Airborne bacteria is one cause of patient infections that can be prevented with efficient ventilation system designs.
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AltaSim Designs and Deploys Apps to Spread Simulation Power
At the COMSOL Conference 2015 Boston, Jeff Crompton from AltaSim Technologies spoke about building, sharing, and deploying simulation apps — and what this means for the future of simulation.
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Analyzing Forced Duffing Oscillations in Metal-Halide Lamps
2 independent researchers share insight into how they are optimizing the performance of metal-halide lamps using multiphysics simulation. Read the full story here >>
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Studying a Dielectric Probe Used for Skin Cancer Diagnosis
Noninvasive tools like dielectric probes are a promising method for diagnosing skin cancer as early as possible. Learn about how simulation can be used to analyze their functionality and safety.
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Designing a More Efficient Disk-Stack Heat Sink with Simulation
Thermal modeling is a powerful tool for analyzing the efficiency of heat sink designs. We demonstrate with a disk-stack heat sink example.
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Fraunhofer ISE Simulates a Solar Heating and Cooling System
To develop adsorption-based systems that run on solar energy, natural gas, and industrial waste, researchers at Fraunhofer ISE turned to multiphysics simulation.
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How to Calculate Mass Conservation and Energy Balance
Ever wonder how to compute the mass conservation of a fluid flow simulation, or the energy balance of a conjugate heat transfer simulation? If so, keep reading >>
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Creating Ultrafast Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests with LEDs
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used simulation to develop an LED-based polymerase chain reaction system that shows potential for point-of-care testing. Get the full story.