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My name is Kevin van As (born 1992 in The Netherlands), and I am working as a PhD student within the Transport Phenomena Group (dept. Chem. Eng.) at TU Delft.

I studied BSc Applied Physics in 2010-2013 at TU Delft, followed by the MSc Applied Physics in 2013-2015, and graduated both with distinction.

I became affiliated with OpenFOAM in (August) 2014 during my internship, and am now using it during my PhD. The main thing I like about OpenFOAM is that it is open source: It is possible to have full control over everything you do. Since OpenFOAM is a far-developed code, it is difficult to get started with OpenFOAM's source code. Ultimately, the reward is not having to work with a black box (and I hate having to work with a black box), and is therefore worth the hassle.

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-I currently am a MSc student Applied Physics - Excellence Track in Solid & Fluid Mechanics at TU Delft.
+My name is [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinvanas Kevin van As] (born 1992 in The Netherlands), and I am [http://cheme.nl/tp/people/kevinvanas.shtml working as] a PhD student within the Transport Phenomena Group (dept. Chem. Eng.) at TU Delft.
-My BSc thesis (2013, 10 weeks) was on numerical simulation of turbulent flow around (fractal) trees.
+I studied BSc Applied Physics in 2010-2013 at TU Delft, followed by the MSc Applied Physics in 2013-2015, and graduated both with distinction.
-My internship (2014, 4 months) was on numerically studying flotation (with OpenFOAM) at Tata Steel Europe.
-My MSc thesis (future) (2014-2015) will be on the simulation of blood and its interaction with light.
-My PhD (future) (2015-2019) will be on simulating blast furnace hearth flow, for which I submitted a proposal and won a grant.
-I'm educated as a physicist and a hobbyist programmer. Specifically, I enjoy writing Java applications, just for fun and "because I can".
+I became affiliated with OpenFOAM in (August) 2014 during my internship, and am now using it during my PhD.
-I became affiliated with OpenFOAM rather recently (August 2014) during my internship.
 The main thing I like about OpenFOAM is that it is open source: It is possible to have full control over everything you do.
-While it is difficult to get started with diving into such a far-developed code, the reward is not having to work with a black box, which is what the alternatives are.
+Since OpenFOAM is a far-developed code, it is difficult to get started with OpenFOAM's source code. Ultimately, the reward is not having to work with a black box (and I hate having to work with a black box), and is therefore worth the hassle.
-(And I hate to work with black boxes.)
-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-van-as/89/7b2/472
 --[[User:Floquation|Floquation]] ([[User talk:Floquation|talk]]) 13:07, 1 December 2014 (CET)