Monthly Archives: March 2016

Modeling a pipe with a large pressure drop

Posted on March 30, 2016 by paolog

The Pipe model is a concentrated parameter model for pipes. The correlations it uses are applicable only for small pressure drops, i.e. less than 10% of the absolute inlet pressure. If the calculated pressure drop is larger than that, you’ll … Continue reading →

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Where is the SQL database plugin for ODBC (qsqlodbc.dll) in Qt 5.6 ?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by paolog

It looks like the SQL database plugin for ODBC (qsqlodbc.dll) is missing from the standard Qt 5.6 installer for Windows you download from http://www.qt.io/download-open-source. You’d expect to find it in C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\5.6\msvc2015_64\plugins\sqldrivers\ where the sqlite, mysql and postgresql ones are found, … Continue reading →

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“api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing” error with LIBPFonOPC on Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit

Posted on March 7, 2016 by paolog

You may receive the error “The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing” when launching the LIBPFonOPC configurator 1.0. 2264 on a fresh install of Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit. Related symptom: this error silently appears in the Setup … Continue reading →

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