Biswajit Banerjee's blog

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Does anyone know more about the causes of that collapse?

Now that we supposedly know so much about mechanics, why does a small-span bridge like that collapse?  

It it because we are optimizing prematurely based on false confidence in numerical models?

-- Biswajit

This talk is worth listening to.

-- Biswajit

For those of you who have to port codes to supercomputers:

New article: Compling C++14 code on a cluster.  http://www.parresianz.com/dem/compiling-paraellip3d-for-a-cluster/

-- Biswajit

New article: Plotting ellipsoids with R.  http://www.parresianz.com/r/plotting-ellipsoids-in-R/

-- Biswajit

The derivations of some equations and solutions to problems from my metamaterials books are now available for download from ResearchGate at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320611794_Mechanical_metamaterials_some_derivations_and_examples.

-- Biswajit

New article: Unit testing and continuous integration of MPI applications with googletest and cmake. http://www.parresianz.com/mpi/c++/mpi-unit-testing-googletests-cmake/

Part 4: Migrating particles across patches. http://www.parresianz.com/mpi/c++/parallel-domain-decomposition-part-4/

-- Biswajit

 Part 3: Plimpton scheme: http://www.parresianz.com/mpi/c++/parallel-domain-decomposition-part-3/

-- Biswajit

Part 2: Exchanging ghost particles the direct way.  

http://www.parresianz.com/mpi/c++/parallel-domain-decomposition-part-2/

-- Biswajit