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December 19, 2010, 23:17 |
what if you stop doing CFD??
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Shyam
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Hello All,
I am involved with CFD solver development for last 5 years. Probably I represent a huge group of PhD students breaking their head with the numerical aspects. Lately, I have been asking myself a question: "What if you decide to stop doing CFD? What else can you do with your skills developed in past few years?" There should be different options available like computational finance, computer graphics, etc. I once did a simulation of shock wave colliding with structures representing my girlfriend's name and sent it as a small gift to her. She was completely impressed, though, I was touching the edge of being a geek Hobbies apart, what would you do if you want to change your field of work but use your existing skill sets? Any ideas from your side?? Cheers, Shyam |
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December 21, 2010, 20:51 |
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Skeptic
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I would suggest something far less intense than CFD. I have found great joy and satisfaction in writing useful numerical code that is less than 100 lines, that runs in less than 10 seconds, and gives 10 decimal place accuracy. There's not much money in it, but I'm not a materialist so that's not a problem for me. |
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January 27, 2011, 03:23 |
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become manager
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March 7, 2011, 23:40 |
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Shyam
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Well... I managed to put in some effort to make an android app in free time.
You can see it in link below. https://market.android.com/details?i...ath.mathscript Ofcourse, I will be happy if you guys buy it Cheers, Shyam |
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March 8, 2011, 02:35 |
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Hey that's a nice app you wrote there, too bad I don't have an Android
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March 9, 2011, 11:08 |
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Shyam
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Thanks for your encouraging comment. I will spend some more time in this now
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March 10, 2011, 05:31 |
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Shyam
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I am trying to incorporate some flow problems into that
If you are interested, you can also see the free wall paper I developed. It is based on incompressible viscous flow using Crank Nicolson scheme. https://market.android.com/details?i....ebruwallpaper Didn't put many features in it yet. |
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March 31, 2011, 12:38 |
Football manager
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Pranab N Jha
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I will like to learn the trades of managing a football (soccer) team. Maybe try my hands on a small school team or something.
Also, I would probably be interested in opening a book-shop somewhere (if I have good financial backup). |
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October 19, 2011, 08:54 |
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FlowLy
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Do what I planned to do when I began my studies: being a Yacht engineer.
I am a Nautical Engineer and I wonder now if I will ever design a boat.. |
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October 25, 2011, 10:21 |
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Arjun
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November 1, 2011, 06:26 |
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Vertex Wrangler
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No just kidding. I'm not even remotely that good
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November 7, 2011, 14:15 |
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Zachariah Swetky
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I see three major alternatives for the CFD analyst:
1. Work as a C/C++ or FORTRAN developer. 2. "Learn" structural FEA and work in a much more heavily developed field. 3. Teach high school math, physics, or chemistry classes. |
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November 14, 2011, 14:37 |
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raj
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Well I can see more than couple of options,
1. Get into any technical university and take up teaching profession related to fluid mechanics and dynamics 2. Develop user friendly Games using CFD programming skill set. 3. Get into management cadre into any technical organisation 4. Get some training and enter into Experimental fluid dynamics |
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November 14, 2012, 13:57 |
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Ben
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I am new to CFD and am wondering, did you have to learn a lot of new skills to be able to create the app or did you just use the skills you had learnt for CFD? I am asking because I am just curious on how designing apps requires the same skills as CFD, I mean do you use C++ to make the app because I thought that it would require languages like java.
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November 15, 2012, 19:44 |
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C++ is an object oriented language, just like Java. Even more, Java was developed by using some elements of C++ (and some other programming languages). So when you know C++, you probably won't have trouble with Java. When you know any other programming language and you pick up programming principles well, you will also not have much trouble using Java, it's pretty simple to code "some application".
Of course, it can get much harder to code an efficient, elegant and user friendly application, but that's an issue of every programming language. And also for CFD, Java is not too bad. At least when you want to automate your STAR-CCM+ workflow (that's what I'm doing beside "normal" simulations), you'll not get around Java.
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January 28, 2013, 13:38 |
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Mihai Pruna
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I do many things aside CFD so I wouldn't really be hurt financially, but I enjoy it more than most of the stuff I do on a daily basis...so probably I'd take a long vacation, surf a lot, then learn the ways of the fiberglass and start shaping boards...without CFD lol
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