Over the course of a few years I have collected pictures, biographies, and other tidbits about the many famous people who have created, studied, and dedicated their lives to the Navier-Stokes equations. I set it to the music of Carmina Burana of the MIT Choir (Creative Commons). Enjoy!
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Sankar’s Helicopter Aerodynamics
I’m really impressed with Professor Sankar’s website on fundamentals of aerodynamics of helicopters. It is often said in the aerospace community that if you understand the aerodynamics of helicopters then you can understand anything. It is really challenging! He has also posted a number of interesting items on aeroacoustics of rotorcraft. I have learned a …
When2Meet – Wonderful App
https://www.when2meet.com/ Best little piece of software for finding mutual meeting times at work. Completely free and donation supported.
Calculator Museums
http://datamath.org/ There are a few wonderful websites online that show the history of calculators. I am very partial to Casio myself, but the Data Math Museum of Calculators has some very interesting history related to the TI series. Also, for those of you who grew up in the United States, one might remember the Little …
Quillbot – A Fast Writing Tool
https://quillbot.com/ Quillbot is a nice free (paid version available) tool to help rephrase or fix grammar issues in writing. Sometimes I encounter tough sentences when preparing papers. A quick copy and paste through Quillbot has helped. I also have referred to some of my students to the site. I do caution that sometimes the meaning …
Acoular
http://www.acoular.org/ My students and myself have had some good luck with the open source and free software package Acoular. We used it to try and visualize the acoustic source distribution within a tornado. It worked fairly well, but of course the technique is dependent on the quality of data used. This is generated by CFD …
Silicon Graphics Tech. Advice
http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgi.html This amazing website contains lots of great technical information on SGI. Many of my students have no idea what SGI is, which is unfortunate, but a quick Wikipedia read is just a Google search away. I grew up with some SGI machines, where I remember running some of my first CFD codes on late …
UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group
https://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads.html The UIUC has an amazing airfoil database containing coordinates and other quick aerodynamic information.
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov – A Digital Tribute
http://kolmogorov.com The great Academacian Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, who pioneered turbulence theory and started the Russian school, has fans overseas (big surprise!). I always wanted to create a website with a collection of his pictures, portraits, important articles, and anything else I could find online or off. Someone of course beat me to it! A recommended …
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LibriVox – Free Open Audio Books
https://librivox.org/ Many people have kindly volunteered to create their own ‘books on tape,’ much like those we heard as children from our local library. Though tape is gone, we can now hear free digital ones from anywhere in the world. There are some good readers of traditional texts. Most are fictional, and worth listening to …