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🧠 “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

Dec 25, 2022

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Welcome to the Sunday Science Newsletter where we explore science, systems & tools that help us become smarter scientists.

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💦 The Magnus Effect

The Magnus effect is the commonly observed effect in sports in which a spinning object moves through air and departs from its straight path.

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🤓 The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Now, anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures. This edition has been designed for ease of reading on devices of any size or shape; text, figures and equations can all be zoomed without degradation.

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🧠 Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson's entertaining and deeply moving plea for creating an educational system that encourages and nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

💦 Vortex Shedding on a Pipe

A classic example of vortex shedding over a cylinder, with modern post-processing techniques in Simcenter STAR CCM+.

💻 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.

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📚 Book of the Week

Practical Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical Engineers

"Practical Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical Engineers" is a book about the practical aspect of finite element analysis for structural engineers.

The objective is to offer the best practical methods and guidelines for the development and validation of finite element models.

It gives to the structural engineers the keys to developing accurate and reliable finite element models by avoiding the most frequent errors. It contains around 100 examples which illustrate the different modelling techniques.

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