Following a long train from Southampton to Manchester last week, I arrived at the First Conference of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in the Museum of Science and Industry. This conference aimed to bring together members of the research community who use and write software that supports research. Opportunities to discuss ...

Got some LaTeX files you're working on? Want to know what specific words you have changed, and all git diff throws up are entire paragraphs in green and red (if you write without line-breaks), even if you just added a full stop? Well, friend, you may think, as I ...

Structuring data with Python: basics review, Tuples, Dictionaries and Classes

As part of my research, I am interested in the use of computer code as a parameterized ‘recipe’ for constructing air vehicle preliminary designs. By defining the ‘bottom-up’ construction of the geometry in this way, a high level of flexibility and reproducibility can be achieved, both of which are desirable ...

PhD Candidate: Paul Chambers

Supervisor: Andras Sobester

Ending: 30th September 2018

Overview

Aircraft preliminary design scopes are drastically narrowed by topological prejudice. Modern aircraft have settled on the same 'tube plus wing and cruciform tail' type topology that has been adopted through their ancestry, with no scientific evidence that this ...

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