A few things

Well it's been a little longer than I wanted but here is an update on my research progress. Just found out that one of my conference papers is due June 14th and Dr. Majdalani wants a final copy by June 4th so that we have ten days to go back and forth with revisions. I have a lot still left to do for my paper, and I am not sure if the problem can even be solved the way I hope I can. I need to add the particular solution to the homogeneous solution to get the full general solution, and then apply the boundary conditions.

However, I am also stuck trying to finish the ground testing section for the journal paper submission of our first hypersonic conference paper. Oh, and the other three were not accepted, and I was never notified until I emailed the session chair. The good news is that the session chair said he would let us know if any openings were available due to others withdrawing their papers.

I also need to give Jeisson the mesh files and some guidance so that he can create the rest of the mesh files. However, I need to figure out what geometries we need to pursue in a logical fashion. That is, I need to check to see if we can do certain geometrical parameters to match up with certain flow parameters so that we have even-nice-integer numbers (say inlet sizes for integer swirl numbers, etc.). I am also behind on researching the CFD on turbulence, inviscid flows, etc. by both books, papers, and CFD Online forum discussions.

So, the good progress I have been making is continuing to enter sources into EndNote and writing a quick summary on them for my papers and theses. I have made good progress on adding and organizing my files and sources. However, the entry into EndNote is quite tedious and time consuming.

My friend and colleague, Dr. Tony Saad, shared with me a new, well new to me, software that organizes your sources. It combines Zotero with EndNote! However, I am still learning it and working with it, and it seems that it may have issues with Microsoft Word. The software is called Mendeley Desktop, and it's absolutely free! It seems to be pretty powerful as you can drag and drop PDFs into your library and Mendeley will automatically pick up the information. You can also import your Zotero library and have the software "watch" folders and your Zotero library for automatic updates when you add sources to these locations. I haven't fully explored its power yet, but it seems to be a permanent solution to both EndNote and Zotero. We'll see as I don't have much time to mess with this new software. Another cool thing is that Mendeley will rename your PDFs anyway you specify which is a huge time saver. You can also link and enter information easier than Zotero, and you don't have to worry about if the download citation thingy works or not. Needs more investigation!!

So, to recap,

1. I have around 180 resources for hypersonics with many more to enter.

2. I need to finish the short addition for the ground testing section,

3. finish the historical section,

4. and begin to complete the thesis by

a. doing more literature review to bolster points (GOTCHA areas, CFD section, analytical section, and historical section).

b. Also for the CFD section I need to run some simulations in FLUENT

c. and for the analytical section I need to find a simple perturbation problem to solve and possible problems for the future

5. For the conical thesis I have over 450 references

6. I did add some to the thesis, specifically to the background of the BHLSE (Bragg-Hawthorne-Long-Squire Equation).

7. However, the most important things to do right now are take care of the papers, so I think the hypersonics will have to go to the back burner once again.

8. So I need to focus on the Chicago paper

9. but at the same time keep focus on the CFD

10. and other two papers

a. unidirectional,

b. and BL

PS I just found out how to edit posts, duh!