Don’t just learn ANSYS. Learn the Finite Element Method.

At the end of the first semester of my final year as an undergraduate, we were expected to have a defense on our progress of our final year projects so far. My team was working on a Tesla turbine. It was simple and straightforward enough; and we knew how it works and all that. The biggest challenge we had was that we had to find a way to increase the efficiency of the previous ones that had been built by previous students. We wanted to impress them so we decided to use a different nozzle; a convergent-divergent nozzle to be exact. Continue reading Don’t just learn ANSYS. Learn the Finite Element Method.

By Way of Introduction…

I created this blog in 2010 while I was a third-year high school student at Ghana Secondary Technical School. At the time, I had no idea what I wanted to write about. I decided to write about football, Eminem and some things I learnt in school, that would be useful to a lot of people out there. It’s safe to assume that that didn’t quite happen. Due to my lack of resources, namely; a computer (The cost was high to do this much typing in an internet café,as I didn’t know much typing then) and also my general fear of my writing skills. Continue reading By Way of Introduction…