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 on a quiet afternoon when the mind needs a rest from research.
HiFiLES High Fidelity Large Eddy Simulation
My students and myself were impressed with the Stanford University release of HiFiLES, a large-eddy simulation solver for turbulent flows. We were able to use it successfully in our Office of Naval Research Grant. In fact, our modifications were released for free with an in-built acoustics solver. These codes are free of charge to use and available to the community. One can read our use of the solver at http://saemiller.com/publications/Shen_Miller_JTCA_2020_preprint.pdf. Grab the source and try it yourself on GibHub at https://github.com/weiqishen/HiFiLES-solver.
Edward Burra Interview
The BBC, a long time ago, published an interview with the great British artist Edward Burra. https://vimeo.com/20763625. I have always loved his paintings of the Spanish civil war and its aftermath, his adventures in Paris and Parisian culture, and his lamentation of the destruction of the English country side. Most of his paintings are housed over in the Tate in London. Some have made their way to the US in exhibitions.
Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics
Cornell has published a series of Mathematical Biographies of a number of famous mathematicians. When I do history portions of my classes I have often referred here. It is worth a scroll for your favorites. Check out Krylov for instance.
Leonardo da Vinci
Subcritical Assembly
Aerospace Verses Mechanical Engineers
Mechanical Engineers use \(y\) as a coordinate axis at the ground pointing towards the sky. Dissimilar, Aerospace Engineers use \(y\) as a coordinate fixed to a flight-vehicle pointing towards the Earth. This is why Mechanical Engineers have their feet on the ground, and Aerospace Engineers have their heads above the clouds.
Navier Choisy Bridge Signature (1785)
Friedwardt Winterberg
Wernher Von Braun once said that we have invented rockets, not to destroy our planet, but to explore the universe. Similarly, we may say that we have discovered thermonuclear energy, not to destroy our planet, but to advance mankind toward a peaceful, galactic culture.
Friedwardt Winterberg
Shocks, a Whole Family
