Ansys is not a shareware nor a freeware software. Contact the company to find your closest ditributor (they might be nice enough to give you a valuation copy) if not venture to any university campus and you'll find someone happy to make you a pirated copy!
usually I output to a *.dat file; i often work with databases of a few million columns. Avoid plotting in Excel though! this has always been my main problem.
joekm, i agree totally with you. In my work environment we use both unix based machines and win based machines (depending on the departments). In my case I use both, and the advantage in linux is that I am able to migrate easily using some good tools between the two machines) often however i...
It should be found on:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
You say you can't find the last 4 folders, these are usually hidden folders.
I usually wrap it up with an If statement,
A better a cleaner way it to do the whole thing in VBA, where your function or formula is copied down only when extra data is given. i-e you get a Y result only is an X is supplied.
You can check with the CIBSE(CHARTERED INSTITITE OF BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERS), ISPE(institute of swimming pools engineers) and SPATA (swimming pools and allied trades association) for info and regulations if you are in great Briton.
If you are in the US, call teh NSPI (national swimming pools...
There is a good book, that might help formulate this: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by Incropera DeWitt, published by Wiley.
There is a group of researchers who did a good job on heat sinks:
C. S. Wang, M. M. Yovanovich and J.R Culham, General Model
for Natural Convection: application...
Working in the swimming pool industry, the structure should be anchored.
There are national standards that must be followed carefully, they also serve as a good guide. If you are in the states, check the NSPI website for information. If you are in the UK, then the SPATA website is the place to...
Sorry, MD5 makes it easy to go from 3D to 2D, but not the other way round. You'll have to model it from scratch; or ask for your 2D drawings to be sent digitally in 3D...
Best of Luck...
Try this book:
The fundamental of Heat and Mass transfer/ or Introduction to Heat Transfer; by Holman or Incropera&Devitt.
Both are basically the same book with one thermo chapter difference.
Sometimes MIT would release their courses on the web for students; try there for any information...
