User:Floquation

I currently am a MSc student Applied Physics - Excellence Track in Solid & Fluid Mechanics at TU Delft.

My BSc thesis (2013, 10 weeks) was on numerical simulation of turbulent flow around (fractal) trees. 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 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. (And I hate to work with black boxes.)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-van-as/89/7b2/472

--Floquation (talk) 13:07, 1 December 2014 (CET)