Bookworm wrote:blacknblue wrote:Fluid dynamics? Energy technologies? Let me advertise my foolish ignorance and take a wild haired stab in the dark. You are going to work on research related to either tidal or wave generated power stations?
The work I'm going to do is for more normal power plants. I'll tell you more after I actually start my new work. As a mathematician I have to admit that I'm more interested about the mathematical theory behind it and especially about applying that theory in computational methods and improvement of the computational methods and so on.
I'm more excited about the multi phase flow problems part than the power plant part.

A mathematician!!

A
girl mathematician...
Bookworm, is any of your work (or study) been in nonlinear PDEs/systems that are psuedoperiodic or chaotic? I took a chaos and nonlinear dynamics class this semester.
It was interesting but I have a hard time getting over my
deadly aversion to numerical analysis and coding. I absolutely hate it. That's what will probably keep me in analysis even though PDEs are so much fun
I loved PDE the class because in ODEs it was all pretty basic but in PDE every day it was like "ok now we have to learn some complex analysis to solve this", "ok today we have to learn fourier integrals to solve this..." it was so cool the way it pulled from all these corners of mathematics.
--By the way, she said she's
only doing two-dimensional turbulent flow. For everyone else out there, that's still
really hard 
. I only learned one-dimensional flow in my undergrad thermofluids I/II courses. And for the satellite system, we only dealt with one-dimensional to approximate losses and performance. We did some preliminary two-D stuff in a CFD program I can't remember the name of...
Can you even DO three-dimensional fluid flow analysis without CFD? I don't think you can can you?