Thursday, November 28, 2013

Post-processing: Tecplot

The best Tecplot forum: to discuss and learn more about Tecplot, link.

Tecplot in cyclopaedia, http://en.cyclopaedia.net/wiki/Tecplot

Tecplot in Wiki, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecplot

Tecplot 7 Tutorial, http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/old_me_course_pages/shortcourses/tecplot/index.shtml

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Mathematics: Books

Basic Mathematics:
To recall major maths' knowledge for all education levels
1) Colin W. Mark, Math Overboard Part I + Part II link.

2) Courant & Robbins, What is Mathematics: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
Hardcopy, PDF

3) Prof. Gilber Strang has written several books in mathematics and engineering, linear, calculus
http://www.wellesleycambridge.com/


Matlab: Books/ Linux

BOOKS: 

Matlab for beginer: very basic, fundamental and condense

Matlab free text book (pdf): Numerical Computing with MATLAB

Matlab free text book (pdf): Experiments with MATLAB
http://www.mathworks.com/moler/exm/index.html

Ionut Danaila, Pascal Joly, Sidi Mahmoud Kaber & Marie Postel, An Introduction to  Scientific Computing. Twelve computational projects solved with MATLAB, 2006, Springer
https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/AI2SC/

Install and run matlab in linux, x32, x64

cd MatlabFolder  go to matlab folders
./install               to install the software
. /usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/bin/matlab   to run matlab

Common error:
/lib/libc.so.6: not found
Resolve: sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6

TIPS

 


only Matlab 2012a and below is suitable with 32-bit

Starting with R2014a, MATLAB student version is available as a 64-bit application and will work on a 64-bit Operating System.
Starting with release R2011a, MATLAB is only available for 64-bit on Mac OS X and as of release R2013a, MATLAB is only available for 64-bit on Linux.
Prior to R2013a, MATLAB student version was available only as 32-bit; while not supported, it is possible to install the 32-bit version of MATLAB on a 64-bit Linux.  In order to install 32-bit MATLAB on 64-bit Linux prior to release R2013a, you will need to tell the installer to install the 32-bit version of MATLAB. To do so you will give the installer the -glnx86 flag. Once MATLAB is installed, you will also need to start MATLAB with this flag. Follow the instructions below to install 32-bit MATLAB on Linux
1) Open a terminal window.
2) In the terminal window, change directories to the location of the installation files. Ex:
cd '/media/MATHWORKS_R2008b/'
3) Launch the installer in text mode with the -glnx86 flag:
./install_unix.sh -glnx86 -t
4) Once the installer is finished, you will need to activate manually from the website as the activation client will not launch on a 64-bit Linux machine. To activate manually, see the Related Solution, 1-3YZBZ6.
5) Once MATLAB is installed and activated, you will need to run MATLAB using the same -glnx86 flag that you used to install. For example:
$MATLAB/bin/matlab -glnx86
(where $MATLAB is the MATLAB installation folder)
NOTE: Some users have problems loading the JRE when running in this configuration. Creating a symlink in $MATLAB/sys/java/jre named 'glnxa64' pointing to 'glnx86' should resolve this issue. You can do this with the following command:
ln -s $MATLAB/sys/java/jre/glnx86 $MATLAB/sys/java/jre/glnxa64

Source: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/94005

Friday, November 22, 2013

LaTeX: Utilities

LaTeX
Draw desired symbols, then it gives the LaTeX commands
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
All Symbol list
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/
All TeX archive
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive
LaTeX commands summary
http://www.bu.edu/math/files/2013/08/LongTeX1.pdf
TeX: page layout
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout


IMAGES, FIGURES

PLOT IMAGES for scientific papers and reports
  • Adobe Illustrator (Paid)
  • Adobe FreeHand (Paid)
  • eazydraw (Paid)
  • VectoDesigner 
  • ConceptDraw OFFICE (more on nice presentation)
  • Xfig
  • LineForm (included LaTeX Equation)
  • Intaglio 
  • GIMP, Image Manipulation Program, http://www.gimp.org/ 
  • Imagemagick, edit, covert bitmap images (Linux, Window, Mac, iOS) http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
  • Inkscape, a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source. http://inkscape.org/en/
  • Tikz, Create nice diagram, http://www.texample.net/tikz
  • OmniGraffle (iPad)
LaTeX only work well with .png, .pdf, .eps image format, so it is better to convert from other format to those format.



Tools:

List of the best TeX editor for LaTeX

FREE
Need TeX System
  • MiKTeX
  • TeX Live

PAID
Bibtex
Convert text file reference to bibtex, http://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/index.php/index

New style or library: manually
Copy .bst, .sty to local folder, e.g.,
Restart the TeX processor
In MiKTeX:   MiKTeX version > Maintenance (Admin) > Settings (Admin) > General > Refresh FNDB
MiKTeX


Packages:
  • Add lines to the documents: \usepackage{lineno}   \linenumbers

Sunday, November 17, 2013

CFD/ Fluid Dynamics/ FSI conferences/events

Conference in heat transfer, fluid flow, computational fluid dynamics

- The eighth conference international conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD8, Chengdu, China, July 24-29, 2014
http://www.iccfd8.org/

- The 11th World Conference on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) and the 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI), that will be jointly held in Barcelona on 20th-25th July 2014.
http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/frontal/default.asp

- The 5th international conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale (HTFFM V) that will run from April 22 to 25, 2014. http://www.htffm-v.fr/

- Isogeometric Analysis: Integrating Design and Analysis (IGA 2014) will be held January 8-10, 2014 in Austin, Texas, USA. http://iga2014.usacm.org/

- The 5th asia pacific congress on computational mechanics & 4th international symposium on computational mechanics (Dec. 2013, Singapore)  http://www.apcom2013.org/

http://www.ichmt.org/

HPC in Asia Posters, http://www.isc-events.com/isc14/hpc-in-asia-posters.html

Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, CONV-14, 08-14 June, 2014, Kusadasi, Turkey

Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, CHT-15, 31 May-05 June, 2015, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Thermal and Materials Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, TMNN-2015, 16-22 August, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5th International conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale , 22-26 April, 2014, Marseille, France

1st International Conference on Micro & Nanofluidics Fundamentals and Applications, 18-21 May 2014, University of Twente - The Netherlands

10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics , 06-09 July, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA

15th International Heat Transfer Conference , 10-16 August, 2014, Kyoto, Japan

ASME-ATI-UIT-2015 Thermal Energy Systems: Production, Storage, Utilization and the Environment, 17-20 May, 2015, Naples, Italy

20th School-Seminar of Young Scientists and Specialists “Problems of Gas Dynamics and Heat and Mass Transfer in Power Engineering”, 24-29 May, 2015, Zvenigorod, Moscow region, Russia