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Modeling What Happens to Frozen Rotating Lasagna

March 30, 2022 Marc Abrahams

Things take a turn in this roundabout technical study of lasagna: “Multiphysics modeling of microwave heating of a frozen heterogeneous meal rotating on a turntable,” Krishnamoorthy Pitchai, Jiajia Chen, Sohan Birla, David Jones, Ric Gonzalez, and Jeyamkondan Subbiah, Journal of Food Science, vol. 80, no. 12, 2015, pp. E2803-E2814. (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing […]

Spaghetti Plot Alternatives

February 10, 2012 Martin Gardiner

When differing longitudinal graphs are overlayed – in order to visualise data from a large number of sauces sources – the results can become confusing – possibly even meaningless. The outcome, in the parlance of data analysts, has turned into a so-called ‘Spaghetti Plot’. (see pic below) But Bruce J. Swihart and his colleagues Brian […]