Re: [Libmesh-devel] How's it going?

[Steffen P. <ste...@tu...>]

KIRK, BENJAMIN (JSC-EG) (NASA) wrote:
> I've been too quiet on this list lately, what with my day job and all.  
> 
> Just wanted to check in and see what people are up to.  If you have a minute
> I'd love to hear what's going on (related or unrelated to libMesh).

I will have to do analysis for some fluid structure interaction
problems. So I will look how to use libMesh for that (I have not thought 
too much about that yet). Besides some more work on the infinite 
elements, this may be of most relevance for me.

We have also (re)started to work on the SLEPc-Interface.
I gave Hendrik an old version of libMesh with an inital interface
for SLEPc. He is currently trying to match it with the present
libMesh version.

My supervisor recently got his own institute at our University,
so some links on the libMesh homepage are obsolete and may not
work currently. I'll fix that as soon as our new institute's webpage is 
online.

Two more PhD students here use libMesh frequently for their projects, so 
it is about to become the no. 1 tool for numerical simulations at our 
institute ;)

> I'm doing aerothermodynamics work here at NASA Johnson Space Center.
> Sometimes that means running CFD, sometimes it is experimental work, and
> sometimes it is supporting real-time mission stuff.  I'm also still working
> on my PhD, and my wife and I are expecting a daughter at the end of October.

Nice to hear. My wife and I are also expecting a child sometime around 
Christmas.

Steffen