An early sample of a VR experience in which students go through the process of assembling a diesel engine, which they will later operate in the real world. Continue Reading →
Can a virtual laboratory experience help develop critical thinking and replace traditional laboratory experiences in engineering education? Continue Reading →
When trying to understand the role and influence of turbulence in our day to day lives, it is useful to imagine what life would be like without it. Some of the most striking examples relate to how the world around us would be completely different in the absence of turbulent mixing. Let’s consider the mean surface velocity of the Yarra river in Melbourne, Australia, if there were no turbulence. Continue Reading →
If you handle a lot of data from various programs, instruments and sources, it is inevitable that sooner or later you will be encountered with a large text file from Continue Reading →
As an extension to my previous post on adding solid or dashed lines to figure captions in LaTeX documents, a similar method can be used to add different types of Continue Reading →
Ever wondered how to get lines in the text of your figure captions to match the lines in your plots? The following post shows how the tikz package can be used to add inline lines and symbols to figure captions in LaTex. Continue Reading →
I couldn’t tell you the number of times I’ve gone to run a code to process a series of images or velocity fields only to find that the file name and numbering sequence is not compatible with the particular code I am trying to run. Fortunately a basic bash script can solve these problems without the need to manually rename your files. Continue Reading →
I’m sure that everyone who uses LaTeX for writing papers and articles has at some point been given a template whose bibliography section requires a specific formatting but does not provide the appropriate BibTeX .sty style file. This post explains how to modify the appearance of the bibliography and easily generate a custom style to match almost any formatting requirements. Continue Reading →
When examining complex fluid flows, from either experimental or numerical data, it can often be instructive to plot (and if time resolved animate) contours of a given quantity and an overlay of the instantaneous velocity vectors. This post shows how to generate and animate a vector field and contour plot. Continue Reading →
Turbulence is more than just the phenomena that leaves airline passengers with a queazy feeling in their stomachs. The rapid fluctuations in wind velocity that causes an aircraft to suddenly lift or drop, are a fundamental property of turbulent flows, however such flows are not restricted to the Earth’s atmosphere and actually have a far more significant effect on our everyday lives. Continue Reading →