Friday, June 19, 2009

Final project gallery

Dear ChE210D class members,

I have completed turning your final projects and movies into an online gallery at the course website. You can find it at this link:

http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/gallery/index.html

Enjoy!

MSS

Friday, June 12, 2009

Final projects

Dear ChE210D-

Great job on the final projects! I was thoroughly impressed with what you all were able to do in such a short period of time. I will be away next week at a workshop, but the following week I will compile the projects into a web page for you all to view and vote on your favorites.

Also, I placed your graded final project back in your mailbox if you are a ChE graduate student. Otherwise, you can stop by my office the week after next to pick them up if you want them.

I hope you all enjoyed the class. From the look of the projects, it seems that you learned a great deal. Down the road, I'd be greatly appreciative if you would let me know how your projects develop (if you continue them) and, in particular, what parts of the course turn out to be the most useful for you.

Have a happy and productive summer,

MSS

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Final project CDs

Dear class-

I have a group meeting from 4-5pm tomorrow, but you can submit your final project either by: putting it in my mailbox or by sliding it under my office door. The former is preferred so that I don't inadvertently step on any CDs.

Cheers,
MSS

Friday, June 5, 2009

Screened Coulomb potential (correction)

Class,

I found a typo in the lecture notes on the screened Coulomb potential in the definition of epsilon_Coul. This has now been corrected.

MSS

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Screened Coulomb potential

Class,

If you are using the screened Coulomb potential in your final project (to avoid Ewald summations), there may be some details to picking appropriate length and energy scales for non-dimensionalizing you simulation units. I have added to the lecture notes some comments on how you might go about doing this. You can find a short derivation in the very last section of the lecture notes on classical force fields.

Cheers,
MSS