S-STEM Scholar Richardo Mendoza's Blog

This week I have been working with Lianyue on getting her ready to start the project. She is currently reading some more papers about the background behind fluid dynamics. At the moment I am working on preparing some MATLAB exercises for her to practice coding and learn MATLAB; upon completion of the exercises we will be able to continue my project with fluid dynamics. Also, I am preparing some mini math lessons to teach her some of the math concepts that she will need as she learns more about my project; this involves partial derivatives, runge kutta methods of integration and eigen values and vectors to name a few. We are excited to work on this project.

Hello everyone, During the summer I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Wenbo Tang at ASU. Dr. Tang is a world renowned expert in the field. As so, he has been working on a project that determines the time it takes for particles to separate. We talked about the possibility of me taking part of that project and he agreed. During the summer I was able to implement various parameters with fortran and then being able to take that information and analyze it in MATLAB. While I was able to make progress in the project I could not finish it. For that reason Dr. Tang asked me if I would be interested in finishing it during this fall semester, I agreed. At the moment I find myself being able to figure out the times I can use MATLAB and when to meet Dr. Tang for the progress of the project. I am also working with Lianyue, another fellow math major. At the moment she is reading papers to get the knowledge and background on what constitutes my project. After she has finished reading the papers, I...