How To Get Funding For Your Computer Modeling Research

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by Masha Petrova

Are you finding it easy to get funding for projects that involve computer modeling? Or is it rather difficult to get budgets approved for new software licenses, and computer workstations? This article in Product Design and Development on-line might be of use to many of you. Please share with us your experience by posting comments!

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Contributing to the Bottom Line with Computer Modeling (Webinar)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

Dear Readers,

I invite you ALL to sign up for my Webinar hosted by www.NAFEMS.org on Contributing to the Bottom Line with Computer Modeling.  Best part? You do not have to be a NAFEMS member and the webinar is compltely FREE! Learn how to use engineering computer modeling in your organization to cut costs, save time and create more innovative products.

To register go here : http://www.nafems.org/events/nafems/2008/bottomline/

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Computer - A Modern Day Frankenstein?

Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

Just a side note: we have been getting some wonderfull comments from all of you on current AND older posts. I try to respond to all, or at least most, of your comments. If you posted comments here previously, I highly encourage you to check back on those posts to see what responses you recieved.

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“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!–Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.

…I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”

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Reactive Flow Modeling- Two Dilemmas

Posted on August 6th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

I am trying out another spiffy new way to provide valuable information to you, MVP blog readers. This is a 4 minute slide presentation about two biggest problems that plague the reactive flow modeling efforts in the engineering industry.

Basically, they boil down to two issues:

1) A perfect modeling software does not exist

2) Chemical mechanisms are user input

- Correct mechanisms do not exist

-  An industry standard for mechanism testing does not exist

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