How to Guides

I'd like to think of myself as a pretty competent person – throw a problem at me,I'll find a solution for it.好的例子。Last week I noticed some cracks suddenly appearing in the kitchen walls and ceiling.The kitchen sits directly underneath the bathroom.The cracks looked like they were appearing where the bathtub was located and they felt damp.Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce this one… the sealant around the bathtub in the shower was failing.

I don't know about your patch of the woods but finding anyone to fix anything in Surrey is pretty much impossible.All the construction folks are busy fixing the damage wreaked by the recent floods.I could ask a friend but felt rather embarrassed to admit that I had never done this – there was always a guy in my life who attended to such matters … my father,a landlord,or ex-husband.Being an emancipated woman I decided to face this challenge head on.After all,I have mastered the art of dispatching spiders without screaming (well,it's now more of a whimper but at least my neighbors don't call to make sure I'm ok),topping the pressure in my tires and even assembling lots and lots of flat-packed furniture on my own without killing myself in the process.Yes,I can… that's my motto.So like any self-respecting newbie I started my research.After watching a few videos on youtube I headed out to my local DIY store.I hunted the various bits and bobs and reserved last Saturday for my latest adventure.

After breakfast on Saturday morning I put on my"working"clothes and tucked straight in.After a bit of to'ing and fro'ing and a whole lot of chin scratching I managed to seal around the bathtub.  It doesn't look perfect and I'm sure the next time I'll do a much better job of it but in the process of doing the task I realized that I needed a master list of things to do when sealing a bathtub … a how to guide.For example,the back of a wet soapy teaspoon is much more effective for smoothing out the sealant than the gadget I bought for £3 ($5).Or fill the bathtub with water and then seal around it.This way the sealant will be at its most expanded state but do not,and I repeat,do not sit down to get a better angle on smoothing out the sealant while standing in the bath tub because you'll get wet.Yup rookie error but you betcha I won't make that mistake again.

Now wouldn't it be nice if someone were to create a series of practical"how to guides"for engineers?Well,search no more because (drum roll),our panel of experts have just published a series of whitepapers to help guide engineers new to the world of thermal simulation (or even not so new but needing a refresher).Please feel free to download and read any of these free whitepapers:

11 Top Tips for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design and Operation… A High-Level ‘How To' Guide
12 Key Considerations in Enclosure Thermal Design – a High-Level"How to"Guide
10 Tips for Streamlining PCB Thermal Design – a High-Level"How to Guide""
10 Tips for Predicting Component Temperatures – a High-Level"How to Guide""

Mentor Mechanical solutions apply at every stage.Image courtesy of Mentor Graphics.All rights reserved.

The titles are all pretty self-explanatory and yes I could have listed them in numerical order but at Mentor Mechanical we advocate an enclosure down to the component-level simulation philosophy and if you really think about it a data center is just a massive enclosure hence the topsy turvy listing.So you see,there is method to my madness … not all the time but most of the time 🙂

I really hope you enjoy reading these papers and I'd like to thank our panel of experts who wrote and contributed to these whitepapers – Drs Parry,Bornoff,克拉克和曼宁以及布莱克摩尔先生。Talk about a thermal simulation dream team!!
直到下一次,,

Nazita