Another Fine Mesh

I was born in the summer of 1972 during hurricane Agnes on the U.S. Navy Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut, where my father was based as a Submarine Reactor Operator and my mother was a graduate student in Music at Connecticut College.  My parents tell me that early on, as does every young American boy, I aspired to become a trash truck driver.  But over the years as I grew up in a small town near Hershey, Pennsylvania, I began to be inspired by NASA programs, such as the Space Shuttle and Voyager missions, to someday work in the aerospace field. That calling lead me to study physics at Juniata College, and then to pursue a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at The George Washington University.  It was at GWU where I was exposed to numerical modeling, first in coursework, and then culminating in a turbomachinery research project where I learned the art of meshing and the science (art?) of running a CFD code to convergence.

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