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MATE 370 Virtual Lab: Exploring Nucleation, Crystallization, and Growth through nanoHUB Virtual Kinetics Tools
24 Sep 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Mohsen B Kivy, Crystal Ipong
This lab explores the kinetics of nucleation, crystallization, and growth processes using nanoHUB tools.
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MATE 370 Virtual Lab: Exploring Phase Transformations Through nanoHUB Nanomaterial Mechanics Explorer Tool
24 Sep 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Mohsen B Kivy, Crystal Ipong
This lab explores the kinetics of phase transformation using nanoHUB tools.
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MATE 370 Virtual Lab: Exploring Diffusion through nanoHUB Defect- coupled and Concentration-dependent Diffusion Tools
24 Sep 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Mohsen B Kivy, Crystal Ipong
This lab explores the kinetics of solid-state diffusion using nanoHUB tools.
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Computational Labs in Kinetics of Materials and Process Design (California Polytechnic State University)
07 Sep 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Mohsen B Kivy, Crystal Ipong
Kinetics of Materials and Process Design (MATE 370) is a 4-unit major course for junior-year undergraduate students of the Materials Engineering Department, Cal Poly State University. The Materials Engineering Department endorses the applications of theory to practice through its...
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Data Analysis of Normal Data Sets in Engineering
24 Jul 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Joseph Joshua Williams, Nancy Ruzycki
Statistical and data analysis concepts in engineering
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Solid Oxide Hydrogen Fuel Cell
29 Aug 2019 |
Solve the steady-state radial diffusion equation in a cylinder to calculate the flux through a tubular fuel cell, then set up the equations to calculate the oxygen concentration field inside the fuel cell and the total power produced.
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Heat Transfer, Cost Modeling and Process Selection
29 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Case study of polymer matrix composite process selection between resin transfer molding and chopped fiber injection molding, including heat conduction to calculate solidification time and technical cost modeling.
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Floating Bubbles Out of Molten Glass
21 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Balance drag and buoyancy forces to determine the size of the largest bubble remaining in a container of molten glass after a certain amount of time.
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Plate Glass Casting
21 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Viscous flow of two layers down an inclined plane to model floating liquid glass on liquid tin.
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Spreadsheet Finite Difference Model of 1-D Unsteady Conduction
19 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: David Dussault, Adam Powell
Use a spreadsheet to estimate temperature history across a PMMA plate immersed in a hot fluid.
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Heat Loss Through Furnace Window
19 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Matthew John M. Krane
Solution of steady state heat conduction with approximate radiation boundary condition, the applicability of which is tested.
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Radiation in Electrostatic Levitation
15 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Calculate total power radiated between square plates and a levitated spherical droplet, and discuss heat conduction mechanisms in the droplet.
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Radiation in facing Target Sputtering
15 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Calculate radiation viewfactors and rates of heat transfer between plates in a facing target sputtering apparatus for depositing yttrium-barium-copper oxide superconducting thin films.
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Tank Drainage Through a Rising Tube
14 Aug 2019 |
Calculate pressures and velocities in a water tank draining through a tube which rises slightly after exit.
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Multicomponent Evaporation I: Evaporation of Volatile Impurities During Electron Beam Melting
14 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Calculate conversion efficiency for electron beam melting for removal of lead, cadmium and zinc impurities from titanium.
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Decarburization of Solid Low-Carbon Steel
01 Aug 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Calculate carbon concentration profile vs. time in low-carbon steel sheet in a decarburizing atmosphere at high Biot number.
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Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor Design
28 May 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Sketch the streamlines in a tube CVD reactor and propose a design change which would lead to more uniform deposition.
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Continuous Casting Hydrostatics
28 May 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Matthew John M. Krane
A mixture of hydrostatics and the modified Bernoulli equation are used to determine the effect of fluid height in a tundish on the flow rate supplying liquid steel to a continuous casting mold.
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Crystal-free Zone in a Glass-Ceramic Dish
28 May 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Estimate the thickness of the crystal-free surface layer in a glass-ceramic dish by relating a heat equation solution to the T-T-T diagram.
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Flow Through a Catalytic Reactor
16 May 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Powell
Use porous flow theory to describe pressure-flow rate and plug/mixing behavior of flow through a packed bed of catalyst spheres.