S-STEM Scholar Richardo Mendoza's Blog

Hello everyone, this week I was able to finalize a code on MATLAB where I placed a marker on every single fluid particle in my simulation. With this code, I am able to see the formation of vortices much clearer. The next step in my project will be to write a code that uses a fourth order Runge Kutta to integrate and determine the time it takes for the vortices to dismantle and the particles to flow out of the vortice.

Hello everyone, these past two weeks I have been working on creating a MATLAB code to be able to place a marker or tracker on the fluid particles. With this tracker I hope to be able to follow its trajectory. If I can get my tracker code to work, then I should be able to implement this and track all of the particles in my simulation.

Hello everyone. This week me and Lianyue have been continuing to work on coding. This week, however, we jumped into coding for our project on fluid dynamics. On my behalf, I used a program called DIABLO where I was able to manipulate parameters such as the number of vortices that are introduced into our field, which eventually affects the enstrophy. Using this program, I also made the size of my grid. Once these, and other parameters, were modified, we wrote code on MATLAB to be able to take this information and analyze. We wrote code on MATLAB to be able to read all that information and make a figure that displays the formation of vortices. Lianyue took pictures of our results and will be posting the pictures on the blog.