Impossible bowling
While bowling, this week, an interesting question came up: is it possible to get every score from 1 to 450 in a game of five pin bowling? Or, to flip it arou...
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Messing around with model parameters
Recently I added some alternative correlations to GasDispersion.jl, the julia package I put together for basic chemical release modeling, and I thought it wo...
Engineering a Cup of Coffee
While making coffee one day, I started thinking about how the coffee making process is both a perfect representation of the sorts of systems chemical enginee...
Monitoring smoke infiltration
A few years ago I mused about using wildfire smoke events to measure the infiltration rate of buildings, in the context of modeling the infiltration of air p...
Taking a second look at the Britter-McQuaid model
I recently spent some time looking in detail at the Britter-McQuaid workbook model for dense gas dispersion and I thought the plume model deserved some extra...