Battery Modeling, FEA in the Browser & An Intro to OpenFOAM
🧠 Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
💻 Battery Modeling & Battery Management Systems (BMS) - Xiangchun Zhang | Podcast #144
🏗️ Finite Element Analysis in the Browser using Google Collab
🚀 Introduction to OpenFOAM: Finite Volume Discretization in OpenFOAM
💦 Historical Figures of the Navier-Stokes Equations
💦 The Potential of Machine Learning to Enhance Computational Fluid Dynamics
Machine learning is rapidly becoming a core technology for scientific computing, with numerous opportunities to advance the field of computational fluid dynamics. This paper highlights some of the areas of highest potential impact, including to accelerate direct numerical simulations, to improve turbulence closure modelling, and to develop enhanced reduced-order models.
High Performance Computing for Potato Chips
The consistent saddle shape of Pringles is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their designers reportedly used supercomputers to ensure that the chips' aerodynamic and structural behaviour would keep them in place during packaging and that they would not break when being stacked on top of each other.
In 1956, Procter & Gamble assigned a task to chemist Fredric J. Baur: to develop a new kind of potato chips to address consumer complaints about broken, greasy, and stale chips, as well as air in the bags. Baur spent 2 years developing saddle-shaped chips from fried dough, and selected the tubular can as the chips' container. Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer and author known for science fiction and fantasy novels, helped develop the machine that cooks them.
🎬 Video of the Week
💻 Engineering Tool of the Week - OpenSBLI
OpenSBLI is a Python-based modelling framework that is capable of expanding a set of differential equations written in Einstein notation, and automatically generating C code that performs the finite difference approximation to obtain a solution. This C code is then targetted with the OPS library towards specific hardware backends, such as MPI/OpenMP for execution on CPUs, and CUDA/OpenCL for execution on GPUs.
📚Book of the Week
Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (Computational Methods in Mechanics & Thermal Sciences)
This book focuses on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms. Using simple algebra and elementary calculus, the author develops numerical methods for predicting these processes mainly based on physical considerations. Through this approach, readers will develop a deeper understanding of the underlying physical aspects of heat transfer and fluid flow as well as improve their ability to analyze and interpret computed results.
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