Associate Dean and Prof of Mech Eng @GonzagaU. Interests: fluid-structure interaction, computational methods, modal experiments, hiking

Spokane, WA
Joined May 2013
Took the long way home tonight.
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What's more cathartic than geometrically exact FEM? (When it's actually all working.)
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Recording some lecture materials on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
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My commute took forever today. It was great.
A dynamics demo for class: It sets up the Udwadia-Kalaba equations for N pendulums and solves them with an implicit Runge-Kutta scheme. Useful for moderate N of O(10) maybe O(100). It's written all in @JuliaLanguage.
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Midterm grades submitted to the registrar, well ahead of the deadline. Now the real work of spring break, namely trying to do some work in the lab, may begin. Tomorrow.
Last week we setup our first #synchonized highspeed cameras in the lab. It's looking pretty good.
A fresh snow and final exams on a crisp morning in #spokane. A good day for a #coffee. #gonzaga #finals
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