Recently, one of the distinguished professors of English at University of Florida published a perspective of being in Florida in the time of academic turmoil. I wish I had the command of the English language like Professor Hofmann to express myself. Please see:https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/in-florida
Category Archives: Links
Remembering Stephen Jurczyk
https://everloved.com/life-of/stephen-jurczyk/obituary/ It seems just like yesterday that I was at NASA Langley working for a short time under then Director Stephen G. Jurczyk. He passed away just recently on Thanksgiving of 2023. He helped propel my career in the later stages of my time at Langley. One thing that I appreciated a lot about Stephen …
Academic Freedom at Florida CLAS
One of my colleagues informed me about a website at the University of Florida, hosted by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The website provides information about academic freedom, and I’m impressed by the college’s effort to create the website. It addresses fundamental questions that people often have about academic freedom, tenure, and other …
The History of the Navier-Stokes Equations
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!
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 …