Almost all of you have been asking what I do at work here in Ann Arbor. Well, the animation in this post is 1/3 of it: Using graphics and animations to illustrate research results and scientific concepts.
For example, everyone knows that hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) uses less fuel. But it doesn't work well for large trucks, and I mean those huge semi trucks on US highways. A concept that our research group is working on involves using high pressure hydraulics to act as the hybrid device. Hence the term "Hybrid Hydraulic Vehicle (HHV)".
This animation is 3 years old now. The newer and better stuff will have to wait until they are "semi-old" before I can use them for personal stuff on the web. Lots of 3D eye candy ;-).
Cutting the research work down to its essence and making attractive, easy to understand pictures/movies for presentations, reports and the internet describes this part of the job.
Next time: Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Work: 1/3
Almost all of you have been asking what I do at work here in Ann Arbor. Well, the animation in this post is 1/3 of it: Using graphics and animations to illustrate research results and scientific concepts.
For example, everyone knows that hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) uses less fuel. But it doesn't work well for large trucks, and I mean those huge semi trucks on US highways. A concept that our research group is working on involves using high pressure hydraulics to act as the hybrid device. Hence the term "Hybrid Hydraulic Vehicle (HHV)".
This animation is 3 years old now. The newer and better stuff will have to wait until they are "semi-old" before I can use them for personal stuff on the web. Lots of 3D eye candy ;-).
Cutting the research work down to its essence and making attractive, easy to understand pictures/movies for presentations, reports and the internet describes this part of the job.
Next time: Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD.
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