Engineering Newsletter April, 2012

Quality Loss Function by Arif Nurrahman

Quality Loss Function is one of Tools for TQM. It shows social cost ($) of deviation from target value. Assumptions : Most measurable quality characteristics (e.g., length, weight) have a target value, Deviations from target value are undesirable. Equation of Quality Loss Function : Quality Loss Function Example The specifications for the diameter of [...] Read More | Comments

Pebble Mine and Anglo American Investment Advice by Jack Caldwell

This week’s mining investment advice follows. It is late Sunday night, I rode too many miles on my bike, ate too much fatty food at Granville Island, drank too much tea, watched too much opera, and drunk too much brandy to be a sound investment advisor. Yet what I write here is, I submit, [...] Read More | Comments

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Using Cantera for Combustion Problems by Rodolfo Rodrigues

An previous post presented Cantera, a package for thermodynamics, kinetic and transport calculations. Cantera is a function library with object-oriented features that can be use in C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB, and PYTHON applications. One of its main strength may be the functions for combustion problems. In this sense it is possible to do equilibrium and kinetic calculations. Let us [...] Read More | Comments