NovaSolver

Indie hacker and developer building NovaSolver, a platform featuring over 1,000 engineering simulations. Passionate about physics, numerical analysis, and leveraging LLM APIs to automate web developme

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Jun 7

Five Structural Calculators Every Mechanical Engineer Should Bookmark

#engineering #science #structural

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Jun 7

Low Pass Filter Design: Setting the Cut-off with Two Components

#engineering #science #low #controls

5 min read

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Jun 6

Op-Amp Circuits: Designing Gain You Can Actually Trust

#engineering #science #opamp #em

5 min read

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Jun 6

RLC Resonance: How a Circuit Learns to Pick One Frequency

#engineering #science #rlc #em

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Jun 5

Heat Pump COP: How One Kilowatt of Electricity Delivers Three or Four Kilowatts of Heat

#engineering #science #thermodynamics #thermal

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Jun 5

Thermal Expansion: The 14 Millimetres That Decide Whether a Structure Survives

#engineering #science #thermodynamics #thermal

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Jun 4

Fin Efficiency in Heat Transfer: Why a Bigger Fin Is Not Always a Better One

#engineering #science #fin #thermal

5 min read

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Jun 4

1D Heat Conduction: Fourier's Law and the Idea of Thermal Resistance

#engineering #science #1d #thermal

5 min read

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Jun 3

Natural Frequency and Resonance: Why Structures Have a Frequency They Hate

#engineering #science #natural #vibration

5 min read

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Jun 3

Single Degree of Freedom Vibration: The Model Behind Every Resonance Problem

#engineering #science #single #vibration

5 min read

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Jun 2

Gear Tooth Bending Stress: Treating a Tooth Like a Tiny Cantilever

#engineering #science #mechanical

5 min read

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Jun 2

Gear Ratio: Trading Speed for Torque on Purpose

#engineering #science #mechanical

4 min read

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Jun 1

Bolt Preload: Why a Tightened Bolt Is Really a Stiff Spring

#engineering #science #mechanical

5 min read

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Jun 1

The Bolted Flange Joint: Why the Bolts Carry Far More Than the Pressure

#engineering #science #bolted #mechanical

5 min read

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May 31

Hoop Stress in a Pressure Vessel: Why Pipes Split Along Their Length

#engineering #science #hoop #mechanical

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May 31

Stress Concentration Factor: Why a Small Hole Can Triple Local Stress

#engineering #science #mechanical #structural

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May 30

Truss Analysis: Solving a Frame One Joint at a Time

#engineering #science #mechanical #structural

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May 30

Mohr's Circle: Reading Principal Stress Straight Off a Diagram

#engineering #science #mohrs #structural

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May 29

Euler Buckling: Why Slender Columns Fail Long Before They Yield

#engineering #science #euler #structural

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May 29

Projectile Motion: Splitting One Problem Into Two Simple Ones

#engineering #science #projectile #physics

5 min read

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May 28

NPSH and Pump Cavitation: Keeping the Suction Side Out of Trouble

#engineering #science #fluid

5 min read

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May 28

Reading the Centrifugal Pump Curve: How a Pump Finds Its Operating Point

#engineering #science #centrifugal #fluid

5 min read

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May 27

Pipe Pressure Drop: How to Size a Pump Before You Buy One

#engineering #science #fluid

5 min read

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May 27

The Bernoulli Equation: How Fast Flow Trades Speed for Pressure

#engineering #science #fluid

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May 26

Reynolds Number: The Single Ratio That Tells You How a Flow Behaves

#engineering #science #fluid

5 min read

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May 26

Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: Why Parts Break Below Their Yield Strength

#engineering #science #fracture

5 min read

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May 25

Buck Converter Ripple: Sizing the Inductor and Capacitor With Confidence

#engineering #science #buck #em

4 min read

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May 25

Bearing Life (L10): What the Catalog Number Really Tells You

#engineering #science #mechanical

4 min read

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May 24

The NTU Method: Sizing a Heat Exchanger When You Don't Know the Outlet Temperatures

#engineering #science #ntu #thermal

5 min read

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May 24

PID Tuning That Actually Converges: Ziegler-Nichols and the Root Locus View

#engineering #science #control #controls

4 min read

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May 23

Monte Carlo Simulation for Engineers: Turning Uncertainty Into Numbers

#engineering #science #monte #math

5 min read

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May 23

Differential Pair Impedance: Why USB and HDMI Routing Is a Geometry Problem

#engineering #science #differential #em

5 min read

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May 22

Reading a Psychrometric Chart Without Getting Lost

#engineering #science #psychrometric #thermal

4 min read

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May 22

Hertz Contact Stress: How to Predict Pressure Where Two Surfaces Meet

#engineering #science #mechanical #structural

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