Research related links

CFD/Vortex methods

• Advanced topics in aerodynamics, a comprehensive database including useful data for a wide range of aircraft: very highly recommended.
• The CFD online site, the main reference for things fluid dynamical and computational.
• The proceedings of ESAIM conferences on vortex flows and related numerical methods: 1996 and 1999.
• Lagrangian vorticity methods for three-dimensional viscous flows at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research.
• Leon van Dommelen's vortex methods page.
• Discrete vortex methods for viscous flows at the University of Southampton.
• Aerofoil analysis: calculate the properties of a section online.
• Cartan's Corner: Adventures in Applied Topology, including Falaco Solitons, vortex defects in water.
• Stromboli net with images of Mount Etna, including vortex rings from the volcano.
• Joseph Palmer's paper airplanes.
• A Fluent calculation of the motion of bubbles in a pint of Guinness.
• Fluid dynamics at the Technical University of Eindhoven and the vortex dynamics group.
• Fluid mechanics at the University of Melbourne.
• L'équipe Equations aux Dérivées Partielles at the Insititut d'Informatique e Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble.
• INSEAN, the Italian model basin.
• Aerospace Engineering at Glasgow University.
• Jeff Eldredge's page on compressible vortex methods.
• The Navier-Stokes equations on the net.

High performance computing and numerical methods

• The HENSA parallel computing archive.
• The Message Passing Interface (MPI).
• Beowulf, the standard for Linux-based parallel computing.
• The Los Alamos Beowulf cluster, Avalon.
• The (US) National Centre for Supercomputing Applications maintains the HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) data file standard.
• For visualization, the software freely available from The Geometry Centre is invaluable.
• The Computational PDE's Unit of the University of Leeds.
• A page on why you shouldn't use Numerical Recipes (and what you should use instead).
• The Numerical methods and allied fields FAQ.
• Sphere Research's Slide Rule Universe.
• The Linux Documentation Project.
• GTS: The GNU Triangulated Surface library, code for handling triangulated surface meshes.
• GSL: The Gnu Scientific Library, highly recommended for numerical computing.
• GMSH, a free (as in freedom) meshing program.
• David Eppstein's page with information on meshing (and lots of other things).
• Steve Hollasch's index of computer graphics (and geometry) topics.
• Jonathan Shewchuck's page which has lots of information on meshing including the Triangle mesh generator.
• The Meshing Research Corner.
• The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, under construction at NIST.
• Encyclopedia of cubature formulas.
• Malcolm Sambridge's homepage has lots of useful information on numerical methods and, in particular, on natural neighbour methods.

Bikes and riding

• Driver Interface Group at the University of Michigan.

Free codes

• Aztec, a parallel, sparse linear solver.
• PMD, parallel multi-domain decomposition for solving elliptic linear second order operator systems.
• MOUSE, a free finite-volume library.
• FEAST, a finite element CFD code.
• Overture, a library of code developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for use in solving partial differential equations, including finite difference and finite volume methods.
• Comedi, Linux control and measurement software.

Technical report servers

• ResearchIndex, ``a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature'', an excellent literature search and retrieval system, with links to preprints of papers and reports.
• NASA/NACA (and Aeronautical Research Council).
• Los Alamos.
• US Department of Energy.
• Treasure Troves of Science.

Graphing and visualization

• Edward Tufte has written the classic books on how to present data.
• John P. Boyd's extensive lecture notes on scientific visualization (including the gospel according to Tufte).
• Gallery of data visualization at York University (Canada).
• Papers about MetaPost.
• LaTeX and MetaPost examples (in French).
• MetaPost links.
• Mayura Draw, a sketching package for Windows.
• Xfig, a sketching package for X11.
• 4Front Technologies, producers of Open Sound System.

Others

• University of Bums on Seats.