Phew....

Three days of exams....
four days of conference^*....
Four days of exams again...


And then came Shaastra 08.

Phew... I was in a roller coaster ride for past few days.... :-o


Up next: meme from the Rat. :)

*Attending conference(read as 'sleeping in AC hall') is easy. I was in organising team :( Will write a separate post abt it.

QOTD In Aero

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

-- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

Saw this in our textbook(Jet Engine, Rolls Royce). Especially true in Aeronautical Engineering.

Learning FEA. Is there an open source FEA software?

Currently I'm learning FEM(Finite Element Methods) for structural problems from my HOD. We use computers for solving those problems fast and in our lab the software used is ANSYS. I'm an ardent supporter of free software and am searching for an equivalent Final Element Analysis software in Linux. Or at least GPLed Windows software. I saw some of those using Google search. But I'm not satisfied with their capabilities.

Anybody know such good software? If so please comment.

PS: Twisted DNA suggested doing a post on 'navel bra' as my first post. But my research(;)) on that is still under progress(!). Hence I write a different first post.