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    Question about Idelchik's Diag 4.10 resistance problem (Error in Aij from my end?)

    Hello, thanks for the reply! Turns out in my script and calculation I had to use log10 (Ln) instead of normal log. I am getting the answers aligning with the text now. One side note- I did notice there were a lot of erratas for Idelchik's textbook. my screenshot is from the 4th edition. I...
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    Question about Idelchik's Diag 4.10 resistance problem (Error in Aij from my end?)

    Hello, I am trying to solve the laminar sudden contraction case as described in Idelchik's textbook. For some reason, I am getting a very large negative value for the coefficient. I have the following variables defined: Re=1961 F0=1.45e-4 (meters2) F1=.0018 (meters2) I am ignoring coefficient...
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    defining interpolation points to plot stresses from path command

    Hello all. I am trying to plot out the stresses across a set of nodes lying on a particular edge. I have used the path command to define the start and end nodes, and created the xy dataset by using the "include intersections" checkbox. Although this does give a decent plot showing the...
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    (global) meshing an assembly of different parts

    Hello all, first time posting. I am currently modeling a 3-d composite structure, and have assembled 3 different parts into one. although the parts are of different materials, I would like to mesh it as one whole assembly. However, it gives me an error stating that it needs to be meshed as a...

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