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Archive for February, 2007

CFD: A code explosion!

Posted by Brian on February 28, 2007

Doomed… doomed… doomed…

So, Project 1 for CFD’s is due in 14 hours and I’ve hit a snag. A rather ugly snag. The project is pretty simple: We have a gas flowing one-dimensionally through a nozzle. Given boundary conditions, initial conditions, and the conservation laws, bring the stream to steady state. Well, the code is now working and the system ALMOST converges, but then the values start oscillating and it is really quite an amazing explosion to watch. Hopefully I’ll be able to talk to Dr. Squires in the morning and see what on Earth is going wrong.

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Starting a blog

Posted by Brian on February 27, 2007

Greetings,

My darling Edith just set up her very own blog so I am so inclined to set up my own. I’ve blogged before, but in no serious manner, so I’m going to try again on more focused topics, namely:

  • Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University.
  • Life with Theta Tau (although naturally most things about the fraternity I cannot post).
  • ASU in general.
  • Software development, namely TagLib#.
  • Any other tangential ideas I come up with.

Bear with me as I get this blog on the road, for my skills as a writer have degraded through neglect.

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