(Thank you! Been checking out the forum for years, but the questions are mounting so I decided to join =D )
Sorry, now I didn't fully understand, but what I attempted to do was a sort of general estimation of the values I could expect by making a simple assumption of just conduction and...
Hi,
I wanted to do some rough "back of the envelope"-calculations of heat losses from pipes, with water circulating in them, to compare to the results of various programs' simulations.
I was not very successful as I was perhaps hoping to get rough estimates in the range 20-200% off, but right...
I'm a chemical engineer in my 30's, but have been working mainly with customer support issues related to software, modelling various mechanical systems and data since my graduation and have really lost quite a lot of touch with any heat/fluid-systems and differential equations.
Now I'm...