The Branco Weiss Fellowship

The Branco Weiss Fellowship, for 5 year, 110,000 USD/year, doing research at your local institute.

Eligibility
The ideal applicant has the competencies to design a surprisingly novel and scientifically rigorous research project which blazes new trails, profiting from the freedom uniquely offered by the fellowship.
You are eligible for the 2014 campaign if:
You officially hold a PhD on January 15, 2014
Your project departs from the mainstream of research in your discipline
You have a record of outstanding scientific achievement
You demonstrate in the proposal a willingness to engage in a dialogue on relevant social, cultural, political or economic issues across the frontiers of your particular discipline
Please do not be disheartened if you have applied before and were not selected, you are welcome to apply again.
Your application will not be forwarded for evaluation if:
You have not officially completed a PhD by January 15, 2014
Your PhD was awarded more than five years ago, as of January 15, 2014
You already hold or have held a faculty or faculty-equivalent position (e.g. assistant professor, lecturer)
You were born before January 1, 1980

PS: But this one is extremely competitive, only a few candidates from top universities, with outstanding research and great profile, are selected per year. Thus, don't waste your time, if you are not a tight fit.

Post-processing: EnSight for both CFD and FEA

Another commercial post-processing: Ensight  http://www.ceisoftware.com/

CFD, Fluid mechanics study / E-learning: Media

Learn fluid mechanics, CFD online:

MIT open course ware
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-01-unified-engineering-i-ii-iii-iv-fall-2005-spring-2006/fluid-mechanics/

IIT video lessions
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?subjectId=105101082

Learnerstv
http://www.learnerstv.com/Free-engineering-Video-lectures-ltv078-Page1.htm

CFD you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35unQgSaT88&list=PL30F4C5ABCE62CB61

CFD webpages

CFD Online: http://www.cfd-online.com/  best for job ads and forum
CFD Review : http://www.cfdreview.com/  general information, CVs
Thermal Fluids Centrals free-access e-global center for heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, combustion, and multiphase systems   www.thermalfluidscentral.org
eFluid Media Library: http://media.efluids.com
Fluids pages in China: http://www.cfluid.com/
Australia  http://www.cfd.com.au/
CFDinfo, http://thcentral.com/CFDInfo/

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

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

http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_center/tutorials/launchpad.html

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

http://www.mathworks.com/moler/index_ncm.html

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