Category Archives: Misc

Another Rule is, when you have written a letter that you feel may possibly irritate your friend, however necessary you may have felt it to so express yourself, put it aside till the next day. “My second Rule is, don’t fill more than a page and a half with apologies for not having written sooner!” Eight or Nine Wise Words …

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“Whenever a model is built, it is always proper to ponder the basic scientific question: is the model really based on the data or is an artifact displaying the prejudices of its creator?” Rudolf Emil Kalman, Kyoto Prize address

codeline by linebuilds the foundationfor eternityjust like sandgrain by graincalms the roaring sea.

“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory,” William John Macquorn Rankine Outlines of the Science of Energetics, in Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow (1855)

I have updated my site to be compatible with my new professorship. I will update it soon. I have not retained my previous three years of posts. Thank you. Edit: I should say that I lost the database and could not recover it.

I was recently awarded the 2015 NASA Early Career Achievement Medal. The official NASA photo was recently released. The medal is for my work in theoretical aeroacoustics and its application to jet noise prediction.

I have begun a new journey in the field of combustion. Currently I am reviewing flammability limits, heat release, flame extinction, acoustics, etc. There is some limited literature on acoustic waves from combustion. I am hopeful that I might eventually place these papers on a more grounded theoretical basis. Current models in use are mainly …

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This weekend I was able to visit the Artist’s Garden Exhibit at The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk Virginia. The exhibit is open until early September. Approximately seventy works are on display. This space shows American artists that used gardens essentially as laboratories for their studies in color theory in the impressionist style. Those …

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My good friend and colleague Alexandra sent me a picture of wildflowers near Lyon, France. I love wildflowers. Perhaps more interestingly Lyon is the location of the Aeroacoustics conference. I can imagine Camille Pissarro incorporating these into some of his countryside paintings. I think that a visit to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens is in order.

The NASA Library is amazing and provided me with the original in Russian. Kolmogorov, A. N., “The Local Structure of Turbulence in Incompressible Viscous Fluid for Very Large Reynolds Number,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk. SSSR, Vol. 30, 1941, pp. 299–303.