Category: Author: Charles Xie
One of the useful features of our Energy3D software is the ability to record the entire design process of a student behind the scenes. We call the reconstruction of a design process from fine-grained process data design replay.Design replay is not a sc…
Figure 1: Particle motions driven by convective flow.Up to yesterday, our Energy2D software has been a program for simulating, mostly, fluid and heat flows. But there are also objects in the world that are not fluids. To simulate that part of the world…
Figure 1. Global insolation pattern from Pole to PoleThe Sun’s power drives the climate of the Earth. Accurately modeling the incident solar radiation, namely, insolation, at a given location is important to the design of high-performance buildings. As…
Figure 1 As it travels through the atmosphere of the Earth, the light from the Sun interacts with the molecules in the air and are scattered or absorbed, causing the radiation energy that ultimately reaches the ground to weaken. This effect is more significant in early morning or late afternoon than at noon because sunlight […]
A Molecular Workbench virtual experiment used in the Iranian study.In the May Issue of Journal of Educational and Social Research, published by MCSER (Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research) in Rome, researchers from Iran and Malaysia …
Figure 1 (go to simulation)There have been some confusions lately about the heat transfer representations in Energy2D simulations. By default, Energy2D shows the temperature distribution and uses the change of the distribution to visualize heat flow. T…
Add any number of sensors to a house.According to Wikipedia, computer-aided engineering (CAE) is typically done through the following steps:Pre-processing: This step defines the 3D geometry, the initial conditions, and the boundary conditions of the mo…
Many people know that south-facing windows can help to heat a house in the winter because they let a lot of sunlight in. Exactly how much of the south-facing wall should we allocate to windows? What are the downsides? How can we avoid them? Our Energy3D software allows students to explore the problems and find […]
Energy3D (Tree image credit: SketchUp Warehouse and Ethan McElroy)A zero-energy building is a building with zero net energy consumption over a year. In other words, the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to or even …
To celebrate 100 years of dazzling history of crystallography, the year of 2014 has been declared by UNESCO as the International Year of Crystallography. To this date, 29 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to scientific achievements related to crystallogra…