Archive for the ‘School’ Category

A Successor to Fortran?

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

I saw an article on Slashdot the other day that piqued my interest. The article links to, among other things, a PDF version of a draft of the language specification for a new programming language that is meant to succeed Fortran. I don't have a great deal of time to ...

The Scalar Advection Equation

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Following the lead of Paul and Mike, I have decided to write a little bit about what I work on at Caltech. But, instead of writing about my research, I have decided to say a little bit about a class project I am working on. I am taking the third ...

My Candidacy Date Is Set

Monday, April 18th, 2005

The candidacy exam for mechanical engineering students is divided into two parts: one part to test the student's knowledge of the course material and one part to test the student's research competence. I took the coursework component in the fall, and I have until the end of this term (Friday, ...

Congratulations Ariele!

Friday, April 8th, 2005

She did it! Ariele passed her candidacy exam today, and she is now officially a Ph.D. candidate. What a well-earned accomplishment. Congratulations Ariele!!

My Project Code is Working

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

After one of the most stressful work-related weekends I have had yet, I finally have my project code bug free (or so I hope), and I am in the business of producing pretty pictures. In fact, one such picture is below (click on the picture to see a larger version).I ...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Today was a reasonably low key Valentine's Day for me. I had my CFD (computational fluid dynamics) class this morning, and I subsequently proceeded to start the coding for my CFD quarter project in earnest. We are supposed to solve the Navier-Stokes equations and the energy equation (with the Bousinessq ...