These are notes and essays on various technical topics pertaining to my research and courses (all the pdf downloads). A few are just placeholders of information. These are not substitutes for relevant text books or research articles, which must be consulted for rigor.
Here is a growing collection of my general science articles in English and Tamil language.
Research Notes / Information (mostly related to my research)
- The Story of Vitreous Circulation
- Bio-heat transfer simulation of retinal laser irradiation
- Role of Porous Medium Modelling in Biothermofluids
- Phase change material (PCM) composite heat sinks
- No Anomalous Enhancement of Nano-fluid Thermal Conductivity
- Enclosure Convection with Obstacles
- Bi-disperse Porous Media
- Inlet Velocity Profile Effects on the Determination of Permeability and Form Coefficient of Porous Medium Ducts
Thermodynamics
- Objectives of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
- Convection Carnot Engine — [ PDF Download ]
- Penrose Triangle and Perpetual Motion
Fluid Science
Concepts
- Concept of Viscosity — [ PDF Download ]
- Temperature Dependency of Water Viscosity — [ PDF Download ]
- Variable Viscosity Effects Explained — [ PDF Download ]
- What is a Porous Medium — [ Chapter – 1 ]
Turbulence
- Turbulence — [ PDF Download ]
- Pipe Turbulence — [ PDF Download ]
- Turbulence in Flow around Bodies — [ PDF Download ]
- Avenue de Henri Benard — [ PDF Download ]
- Simple Method to Detect Pipe Turbulence — [ PDF Download ]
Thermal Science
Concepts
- Concept of Bulk Temperature — [ PDF Download ]
- Heatlines — [ PDF Download ]
- Nusselt, Biot numbers and Özisik
General Heat Transfer
- Explanation of Fourier Series — [ PDF Download ]
- First Law and Fourier Law — [ PDF Download ]
- Nanofluids and their Thermal Conductivity
- No Anomalous Enhancement of Nano-fluid Thermal Conductivity
- Introduction to Scale Analysis — [ PDF Download ]
- Stefan and the Polar Ice Caps
- Stefan and the T to the fourth power law
- Stefan and the Diathermometer
Phase Change Heat Transfer
Convection Heat Transfer
- Heatlines — [ PDF Download ]
- Scale Analysis of Flat Plate Forced Convection — [ PDF Download ]
- Concept of Bulk Temperature — [ PDF Download ]
- Temperature Dependency of Water Viscosity — [ PDF Download ]
- Variable Viscosity Effects Explained — [ PDF Download ]
- Free Convection For Dummies
- Free Convection and the Rayleigh Number
- Convection Carnot Engine — [ PDF Download ]
- How to quickly cool a bottle of drink — [ PDF Download ]
- Solar Convection
