#thermal

Pull a hot steel bolt out of a furnace and quench it in oil, and a fair question is: does the bolt...

Hold your hand near a hot stove without touching it and you still feel the heat. There is air in the...

Lift the bonnet of any petrol car and you are looking at a machine whose performance was decided long...

Picture a power plant burning fuel to spin a turbine. It is tempting to assume that with enough...

A jet engine on the wing of an airliner and a gas turbine humming away in a power station look like...

L'esposizione degli smartphone a temperature ambientali elevate, tipiche dei mesi estivi (soprattutto sopra i 35-40 °C), rappresenta un serio pericolo per l'hardware, con conseguenze che possono dann…

An electric resistance heater turns one kilowatt of electricity into one kilowatt of heat. A heat...

Stand on a long steel bridge on a hot afternoon and you may hear it: a faint clatter as a vehicle...

Pick up a CPU heat sink and look at the tips of the fins. Run the processor hard, then touch the base...

Press a hand against an outside wall on a cold morning and you can feel heat leaving your body. It...

There are two ways to analyze a heat exchanger, and the choice between them comes down to one...

The psychrometric chart is one of the most information-dense diagrams in engineering. To a newcomer...