I realized that you had posted a comment and it's been a while since I replied to it! I'm not sure how much time the new grad students at Berkeley spend "talking shop" online -- I think right now they are focused on finishing their coursework and on their local research projects. We usually check out the LAPACK forum / e-mail list for linear algebra questions and the appropriate mailing lists for subject-specific questions. I've been on general forums before and they tend to be time sinks, because we get lots of "n00b" questions from people who may just be too lazy to look up the answers themselves. LinkedIn is good for job networking. So it's hard to work on starting up yet another community -- which is a good community, don't get me wrong! and indeed even a good idea to shape as a social networking thing rather than just a forum or e-mail list, because it gives you a sense of reputations. It's esp. hard since I'm writing my thesis and some papers now ;-)
I am generally interested in EE, more from the implementation side but also brain storming and system engineering/refinement. I usually do well with complex challenging problems. Perhaps we should talk on the phone (203 727-0280if you'd like. Here's my Linked In profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/petebasel
Hi Theodre,
First Iam extremely happy and thankful that people like you are promoting computational engineering. Iam doing my MS in that.I have always had a hard time in explaining to others what it actually means.
It is true that Iam working in CFD and interested in quant finance(informally). My idea has always been to understand the essence of developing computational math models to understand the behaviour of mother nature.let it for fluid dynamics,heat transfer or finance.
No luck, people here are somewhat lazy and sometimes they are not willing or cannot discuss things without signing NDAs (most of them work for the industry). The idea of creating a packaging group is, in my opinion, really cool. We have to give people some time, I think. Topics discused here are not easy and write an answer requires time and a deep understanding of the subject, so you cannot expect, IMHO, that people will use this as a social scientific network. In my experience, I have found that gathering people toward a common goal (realization of a software, benchmarking, wiki writing, etc.) can help. Personally I found ning layout quite confusing (I am writing on a notepad while looking at you comment) because the interface ning gives is oriented more toward social networking like chatting about parties and travels, than to organize people discussion on such complex topics. Anyway this is just a nuisance, not really an obstacle. My recipe is: time :)
I just started my masters at Stanford in Computational Math...I am interested in a lot of stuff but I work on microfluidic simulations. At one point I used to work on cfd and aerodynamic optimization. I like your site...where do you see it going?
Hi, yes I have studied subjects related structural Engg in my Master. Rather I m planning to take my thesis related to structural Mechanics. You can discuss with me the matter for what u r looking for some person....
Theodore,
I am going to finish the course work of MSc by this semester. I have a good understanding of almost all subjects (materials, mechanics and programming), but I have one problem. Even though I am above average student but I am feeling like a dummy at the moment. I am not sure about the chances I would have for a good thesis and/or PhD, perhaps because I don't have good contacts with any research group, or academic staff. I have applied for thesis and also for PhD, but didn't get any reply. May be due to the problem that I always love to work in isolation (and this is first time I am out on internet), will I be facing problems to proceed further??
My project is actually frozen since I'm not in Gothenburg at the moment. There is a thesis worker at Craft working at interfacing my project with Craft's environment and it seems this is taking quite a long time.
About collision detection, what you find in my thesis was actually used only in the first stage of the project, since now we totally rely on Bullet which uses its own trimesh collision detection tool, called GIMPACT.
About deformations, I haven't benchmarked FEniCS against other solvers unfortunately. What I noticed is that the performance strongly depends on numerical stability and thus aimed at finding reasonable (physically-based) tricks to make an implicit solver on a stiff problem as fast as an explicit solver on a non-stiff one.
About Windows, I know that now FEniCS building system has changed and uses Scons, but not being a computer scientist I don't know if this can be of any help for efficiently using it in Visual Studio.
MY primary results for LBM are ready so I am assured for my graduation. I am starting to write the code for compressible LBM (In fact base classes are almost ready). openLB doesn't have compressible model and most of the aerospace applications are compressible so hope to finish this one soon unlike the last one
Theodore,
I have some serious problems with understanding the Mathematical Strain Measure (e.g Green-Lagrange Strain tensor, and other Strain tensors), can you please tell me some good monographs about strain tensors. I am just trying since last year to dig to the root of the mathematics of linear and non-linear strains.
Hi,
my interest lies on "structural aspect of biological elements especially DNA and RNA. Specifically understanding their interactions and deducing solution to biological problems.
Designing new algorithms(artificial intelligence) robust enough for these vast biological research.
Interdisciplinary research involving biology and electronics as well as nano-technology as an area of drug delivery.
Theodore,
I have got CIMNE Erasmus Mundus Schoalrship for MSc in Computational Mechanics. As I have told you earlier that I am already studying in MSc Computational Mechanics at Ruhr University Bochum, and in this semester I will complete the course work required for the degree, I am thinking on what sholud be my next step. The only thing left is MSc Thesis.
Should I go for the CIMNE Scholarship or not.
(you might know its under Prof. O.C Zienkiewicz).
It was my dream to study at such a place but it came true when it is very difficult to take such a decision.
Theodore,
At the moment I am in last semester of course work in university, then I will move to Postgraduate Research Thesis (MS and then to PhD). Now I am studying Computational Plasticity, Visco Plasticity, Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue problems, p-Methods in Finite Elements (developement of problem specific JAVA codes) and ANSYS for general CSM problems.
In next 5~6 months I will become able enough to finalize the area of my future academic career. I am very much interested in the failure of the Power Transmission machinery components and I am trying hard to get MS thesis in this area.
English was the medium of learning throughout my High School education & BS Mechanical Engineering, and now I am study in Germany in International degree course, here language is a problem because only this Comp-Eng department offers courses & research opportunities in English, other affiliated institutes (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering) have most of their research projects in German language. To learn German along with this tough course is not easy at all, I am thinking on how to resolve this problem.
Ciao Theodore,
I am back from my holidays. I am getting in sync with my past work. Sorry for this delay. I see that MTL is c++ code while ngspice is C code. I see that a lot of effort is needed to put MTL into ngspice. I have read your comment before leaving for holidays and sdownloaded info on KLU. Why do not add Al Davis (GNUCAP) to this wiki, gnucap is written in c++ and can be integrated better than ngspice (this does not means that I am not giving a look to it :))
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First Iam extremely happy and thankful that people like you are promoting computational engineering. Iam doing my MS in that.I have always had a hard time in explaining to others what it actually means.
It is true that Iam working in CFD and interested in quant finance(informally). My idea has always been to understand the essence of developing computational math models to understand the behaviour of mother nature.let it for fluid dynamics,heat transfer or finance.
No luck, people here are somewhat lazy and sometimes they are not willing or cannot discuss things without signing NDAs (most of them work for the industry). The idea of creating a packaging group is, in my opinion, really cool. We have to give people some time, I think. Topics discused here are not easy and write an answer requires time and a deep understanding of the subject, so you cannot expect, IMHO, that people will use this as a social scientific network. In my experience, I have found that gathering people toward a common goal (realization of a software, benchmarking, wiki writing, etc.) can help. Personally I found ning layout quite confusing (I am writing on a notepad while looking at you comment) because the interface ning gives is oriented more toward social networking like chatting about parties and travels, than to organize people discussion on such complex topics. Anyway this is just a nuisance, not really an obstacle. My recipe is: time :)
I am going to finish the course work of MSc by this semester. I have a good understanding of almost all subjects (materials, mechanics and programming), but I have one problem. Even though I am above average student but I am feeling like a dummy at the moment. I am not sure about the chances I would have for a good thesis and/or PhD, perhaps because I don't have good contacts with any research group, or academic staff. I have applied for thesis and also for PhD, but didn't get any reply. May be due to the problem that I always love to work in isolation (and this is first time I am out on internet), will I be facing problems to proceed further??
About collision detection, what you find in my thesis was actually used only in the first stage of the project, since now we totally rely on Bullet which uses its own trimesh collision detection tool, called GIMPACT.
About deformations, I haven't benchmarked FEniCS against other solvers unfortunately. What I noticed is that the performance strongly depends on numerical stability and thus aimed at finding reasonable (physically-based) tricks to make an implicit solver on a stiff problem as fast as an explicit solver on a non-stiff one.
About Windows, I know that now FEniCS building system has changed and uses Scons, but not being a computer scientist I don't know if this can be of any help for efficiently using it in Visual Studio.
I will soon have 3D results from my benchmarking. I shall print it in VTK format. This is my final exam week after that I'll have more time.
Chinmay
MY primary results for LBM are ready so I am assured for my graduation. I am starting to write the code for compressible LBM (In fact base classes are almost ready). openLB doesn't have compressible model and most of the aerospace applications are compressible so hope to finish this one soon unlike the last one
Chinmay
I have some serious problems with understanding the Mathematical Strain Measure (e.g Green-Lagrange Strain tensor, and other Strain tensors), can you please tell me some good monographs about strain tensors. I am just trying since last year to dig to the root of the mathematics of linear and non-linear strains.
my interest lies on "structural aspect of biological elements especially DNA and RNA. Specifically understanding their interactions and deducing solution to biological problems.
Designing new algorithms(artificial intelligence) robust enough for these vast biological research.
Interdisciplinary research involving biology and electronics as well as nano-technology as an area of drug delivery.
I have got CIMNE Erasmus Mundus Schoalrship for MSc in Computational Mechanics. As I have told you earlier that I am already studying in MSc Computational Mechanics at Ruhr University Bochum, and in this semester I will complete the course work required for the degree, I am thinking on what sholud be my next step. The only thing left is MSc Thesis.
Should I go for the CIMNE Scholarship or not.
(you might know its under Prof. O.C Zienkiewicz).
It was my dream to study at such a place but it came true when it is very difficult to take such a decision.
At the moment I am in last semester of course work in university, then I will move to Postgraduate Research Thesis (MS and then to PhD). Now I am studying Computational Plasticity, Visco Plasticity, Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue problems, p-Methods in Finite Elements (developement of problem specific JAVA codes) and ANSYS for general CSM problems.
In next 5~6 months I will become able enough to finalize the area of my future academic career. I am very much interested in the failure of the Power Transmission machinery components and I am trying hard to get MS thesis in this area.
English was the medium of learning throughout my High School education & BS Mechanical Engineering, and now I am study in Germany in International degree course, here language is a problem because only this Comp-Eng department offers courses & research opportunities in English, other affiliated institutes (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering) have most of their research projects in German language. To learn German along with this tough course is not easy at all, I am thinking on how to resolve this problem.
I am back from my holidays. I am getting in sync with my past work. Sorry for this delay. I see that MTL is c++ code while ngspice is C code. I see that a lot of effort is needed to put MTL into ngspice. I have read your comment before leaving for holidays and sdownloaded info on KLU. Why do not add Al Davis (GNUCAP) to this wiki, gnucap is written in c++ and can be integrated better than ngspice (this does not means that I am not giving a look to it :))
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