What are manifolds used for?

Simply put, a way of combining multiple inputs and outputs. Keep it simple!

depending on your audience

• A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections.
• A pipe or chamber used to link many openings.

Open the bonnet of your car. there is a manifold to distribute the intake (air and petrol) to the different cylinders points of use. Then there is a inverse manifold to combine the exhaust gas into a single exhaust silencer system.

Not exactly true for all vehicles.

You may name any one of the two inverse.

The two main words distribute and combine could be used in any type of application.

manifold
Function:noun

1 : a mathematical set
2 : a topological space in which every point has a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to the interior of a sphere in euclidean space of the same number of dimensions

Woah! What military specification did you find that in? I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you. I work with a lot of military specifications and procedures that take something simple like the definitons above and turn into and engineering encrypted form of the word that most have to read twice to understand when they could have kept it simple. Haha, makes good sleeping material though!

When the word is used as a noun, you find it as a mathematical concept in Merriam-Websters Unabridged Dictionary. I've run into this definition before while perusing multi-dimensional physics.

Like Heart Cooks Brain said....keep it simple. Some people can take the simple to heights so high, that it does little good for so few.

It is simple and very brief. Without asking Heita, how do you know that this wasn't the type of manifold he was asking about.

Hey Vermin,

1 : a mathematical set

2 : Five: the set of all possible sets with five members.

Then what's the five smallest numbers not included in the set of five?

John

OK, I'll have to defer to you on this one...

Any five numbers (things, including intersections of other sets), no matter how small are still a set of five and belong within the "five set."

Go ahead and lower the hammer on me.

Hey vermin nice to see that you got a new friend there .

I don't understand, what five sets?

Well my quote on this:

"manifold (′man·ə′fōld)

(engineering) The branch pipe arrangement which connects the valve parts of a multicylinder engine to a single carburetor or to a muffler.

(mathematics) A topological space which is locally euclidean; there are four types: topological, piecewise linear, differentiable, and complex, depending on whether the local coordinate systems are obtained from continuous, piecewise linear, differentiable, or complex analytic functions of those in euclidean space; intuitively, a surface."

From "manifold." McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003. Answers.com 24 May. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/manifold-3

That's cousin Floyd. He's just visiting.

Hmm.. must be the genes from his father. His build is rather "different" from you.

If we could just get rid of that nervous tick.

Vermin,

The ticks in my neighborhood aren't nervous at all. The buggers just go ahead and bite. They have no shame.

John

Can I have some Lyme with that tick bite?

Sure Vermin, I'll serve it to you in a manifold (chilled of course).

Oh, and shaken. not stirred.

If the Borrelia find their way out the other end I do suggest you flee at once.

Otherwise you really may have a nervous tick.

John

Cousin Floyd went home! Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!

I meant to say "flea at once".

Manifolds are used to muzzle sound produced by mechanical devices as well, connect various intake and exhaust ports.

. . . utilised to redirect or create an effect upon energy !

(Ha. . . . and my mother-in-law told her to marry the dentist !!!)

Heita are you tallking about for example a manifold for different pumps connected in parallel and a common pipe connecting to it?

Please if you can send specific info...

Regards

Hi Guest,

Is this specific enough:

• Manifold, an abstract mathematical space which, in a close-up view, resembles the spaces described by Euclidean geometry.
• Manifold (automotive engineering), an engine part which joins many connections into one, for example the exhaust manifold
• Hydraulic manifold, a component used to regulate fluid flow in a hydraulic system, thus controlling the transfer of power between actuators and pumps
• Manifold (scuba), in a scuba set, connects two or more diving cylinders, so that one diving regulator is fed by all the cylinders.
• Manifold chemistry, a piece of apparatus used in chemistry to manipulate gases. See Schlenk line and Vacuum manifold.
• Manifold (magazine) and 2mainfold (magazine) are magazines of the Warwick University mathematical community.

Cheers,

John

I meant to send previous post to Heita.

Sorry,

John

Hello Heita,

Please see post # 23 on this thread. I meant to send it to you.

John