Links
Societies and Organizations:
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- SFPE UT Student Chapter
- SFPE WPI Student Chapter
- SFPE UHD Student Chapter
- National Fire Protection Association
Fire Modeling Resources:
- Fire Dynamics Simulator (maintained by NIST)
- FDS-SMV Community Wiki (Contribute today!)
Projects I’m involved in:
- Fire Dynamics Simulator – A CFD model used for fire simulations
- BlenderFDS – A 3D geometry creation tool for FDS; implemented in Blender; coded in Python
- FDS Tools – web tools and misc. tools for FDS
- Spyder – A GUI for scientific/engineering use of Python/Scipy/Numpy
- Scipy/Numpy – scientific and numerical libraries for Python
- Sage – free and open-source alternative to Mathematica/Maple/MATLAB
Fire Protection Engineering Resources:
- Fire Research at The University of Texas at Austin
- Fire Protection Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Fire Protection Engineering Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown
- Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Fire Protection Association
Journals and Periodicals:
- Fire Safety Journal
- Fire Technology
- Combustion and Flame
- Combustion Science and Technology
- Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
- Symposium (International) on Combustion
- Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves
- Flow, Turbulence, and Combustion
- Fire and Materials
- Journal of Computational Physics
Tools I use:
- Google!
- Google Mail
- Google Docs (Share and collaborate documents and spreadsheets online)
- Google Reader (the best RSS reader)
- Google Scholar (Scientific/academic paper search engine)
- Google Maps
- Google Calendar
- Science
- Python (Flexible programming language)
- SciPy (Scientific Python package)
- NumPy (Numerical Python package)
- Sage (Math/engineering/science tool)
- Spyder (Scientific/engineering GUI for Python)
- Papers (PDF organizer for scientific papers)
- GraphClick (Easy collection of data from plots and charts)
- LyX (LaTeX front-end)
- Bib-Desk (BibTeX reference manager)
- Fun
- Other
Productivity / Life Hacks:
Additional Resources:
Scientific editing
I also perform scientific editing work for American Journal Experts by editing scientific articles written by non-native English speakers to improve upon their grammar, style, and readability. I think it’s a great opportunity to contribute to the scientific community while earning some extra income.
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