Text Formatting ⇒ minipage: list on left, table on right

[gsal]

Say, I am trying to learn how to use minipage but there is some space on top of the table that seems to be coming from nowhere...any idea what might be going on? The huge space is still there even when I remove vspace 10pt, besides, 10pt is not that much...anyway. See attached picture.

thanks,

gsal

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\begin{minipage}[b]{0.58\textwidth}
\begin{itemize}
\item Note that the CFD mass flow had to be multiplied by 18 (since only 20 degree sector was modeled) and then divided by 1.1275428 (the density when TCOOL=40\,$^\circ C$).  The temperature had to be converted to $^\circ C$ and also corrected due to the CFD rotor duct length (of 3 inches) and converted from total to static temperature.  Also the vent scoop flow was evenly divided and added to the last four rotor ducts.
\item Blower pressure=4599$Pa$, exhaust pressure=1049.94$Pa$, and intake pressure=3741.92$Pa$ -- same as the CFD boundary conditions.
\item The loss coefficient from the blower to the airgap, CEN, was set to 0.72 and the corresponding reference area, AEN, was set to 273431 mm.  Note that the value for CEN was arbitrarily set to match the CFD airgap pressures at the beginning of the airgap.
\item The loss coefficients for the stator vents were calculated from CFD results using the same Fluent UDF that was previously created for setting the loss coefficients for TG3503.  See the attached .pdf files below for details.
\end{itemize}
\begin{quote}
\attachfile[icon=Paperclip]{air-gap.pdf} air-gap.pdf \\ \\
\attachfile[icon=Paperclip]{method.pdf} method.pdf
\end{quote}
\end{minipage}
\hspace{0.5cm}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.15\textwidth}
\begin{tabular}{|p{1.5cm}|p{2cm}|p{1.cm}|}
\hline
Rotor Vent No. & Volume flow ($m^3/s$) & Ts ($^\circ C$) \\
\hline
 1 & 0.236519478 & 49.50 \\
 2 & 0.230733088 & 49.37 \\
 3 & 0.220691624 & 49.25 \\
 4 & 0.212382880 & 49.17 \\
 5 & 0.204646381 & 49.11 \\
 6 & 0.198191839 & 49.08 \\
 7 & 0.192881787 & 49.07 \\
 8 & 0.186177887 & 49.07 \\
 9 & 0.180839064 & 49.05 \\
10 & 0.176753425 & 48.99 \\
11 & 0.173361514 & 48.93 \\
12 & 0.168978563 & 48.88 \\
13 & 0.166117338 & 48.85 \\
14 & 0.164573235 & 48.85 \\
15 & 0.164713898 & 48.88 \\
16 & 0.164173622 & 48.94 \\
17 & 0.162926831 & 48.98 \\
18 & 0.162997163 & 48.98 \\
19 & 0.163703678 & 48.94 \\
20 & 0.165068754 & 48.88 \\
21 & 0.167060423 & 48.81 \\
22 & 0.169576384 & 48.74 \\
23 & 0.172533517 & 48.66 \\
24 & 0.753677541 & 48.57 \\
25 & 0.756091201 & 48.47 \\
26 & 0.758626343 & 48.35 \\
27 & 0.761151894 & 48.21 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}

[gsal]

Also, there seem to be a entire blank page being inserted along this behaviour.

[gsal]

A discovery...it seems as if the tabular environment on the second minipage, simply does not honor the minipage alignment option...the table is always aligned vertically centered respect to the reference line...

...anyway to fix this?

I also tried putting the minipages into a 'table' but got same behaviour.

I also tried twocolumns but it starts new pages when switching num of columns.

Alternativaly, any other way to make text flow around tables?


Thanks

[gsal]

Fixed.

Added vspace until both minipages were the same height, aligned both in the middle.

[Johannes_B]

Please use the package showframe to see, that your contents do not fit the page. Just the table (4.5 cm) ist broader than .15\textwidth.