12 days
Posted by Kris on May 14th, 2007
Yes, twelve more days until I depart for Maryland for the summer.
I’m really glad that I got a chance to attend the Fire Conference about a month ago and meet the people that I’ll be working with. I got a prety good glance at what exactly I’ll be doing there in the summer:
- Assisting with writing/rewriting the user manuals for NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator
- Assisting with writing a new guide to fire modeling in FDS which will help more with the “process of modeling” than the underworkings
- Performing verification and validation tests with the fire dynamics models
- Assisting with the final version release and community development of FDS code and support issues
- Assisting with the development of a material properties database for input into FDS
I know it sounds vague, but there is so much going on at NIST that this really helps me make sense of things.
I also have assigned roommates now, three people total in the apt./hotel who are not online geeks like me who have read every thread in the online researchers forum; so I have not met them informally or formally.
I am actually way too excited about the next three months to turn back and think about missing home - in my world, this is easily one of the top experiences that will happen in my life.
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