Thursday, May 24, 2007

Holy Power



Jep, we gaan naar opwekking dit weekend.

En ookal hebben we nog geen auto, we hebben wel een caravan!!

Prettig pinksteren

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Schatrijk




-Matteus 6:19-21-


Verzamel voor jezelf geen schatten op aarde:

Mot en roest vreten ze weg en

dieven breken in om ze te stelen.

Vezamel schatten in de hemel,

daar vreten mot noch roest ze weg,

daar breken geen dieven in om ze te stelen.

Waar je schat is, daar zal ook je hart zijn.

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Don't store up treasures on earth!

Moths and rust can destroy them,

and thieves can break in and steal them.

Instead, store up your treasures in heaven,

where moths and rust cannot destroy them,

and thieves cannot break in and steal them.

Your heart will always be where your treasure is.

http://blog.eljee.nl/index.php

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Nieuw leven in de stad.



We stonden op de tram te wachten en toen kwamen we hun tegen.

Wat zijn ze schattig he!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

My graduation project

Hi everybody,

In a few months I will graduate at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the TUDELFT.
But only a few people know what I am doing. So here's some info. I'm writing in english so everybody can understand. Imagine this:

In a few years from now...., you feel tired very fast. Every time you go up the stairs, you feel awfully tired. So you decide to see a doctor. He decides to send you to a hospital for a scan. After a few days, you hear the results and the doctor concludes one of you major arteries has narrowed extensively (called artherosclerosis). So you need treatment. The doctors in the hospital suggest to do surgery and show you the scan and what kind of surgery is needed (for example a bypass) . Now wouldn't it be nice, before you go into surgery, to have computer model telling you what complete influence the bypass has on your vascular system and for the doctor to see if the bypass will have the desired effect?.... This is where my graduation project starts..

This computer model is quite complicated. We need to model the behaviour of blood, the blood vessel and the interaction with eachother. This will result in a so-called fluid-structure-interaction problem which shows to be very challenging. Since both blood and blood vessel vary under certain circumstances (like age, percentage of cholesterol in your blood and many other parameters) these models are extremenly complicated. And even when we have defined proper models, we need a solution technique that is efficient enough to run on a single computer within small amount of time, say a few hours. ( It becomes a bit mathematical now..) . Although in real life your arteries are three-dimensional "tubes", I am looking at a simplified two-dimensional problem, to reduce the complexity a little bit. In the last two decades, a lot of research has been done on the Finite Element Method. This method approximates the solution to the difficult equations we need to solve ( like the Incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid ) by a serie of known simple functions. So the more simple function we include in our approximation, the better the approximation but the larger the calculation. Now, using this FEM method, I try to solve the fluid-structure-interaction problem and look at how to couple the fluid and the structure and do it in a efficient manner.

Although the explanation is a bit short, I hope it gives an idea..

grt Eliam
( One of the most famous examples of fluid-structure-interaction is the Tacoma bridge see picture at the top)

think about it..


God provides the wind,
but man must raise the sails.
-Augustine-

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Dagje Antwerpen!















We zijn zaterdag met Roel, Koos en Els
(oude zub-vrienden van navigators) naar Antwerpen geweest!
Was echt gezellig!
Even wat foto van de mooie stad en wat we allemaal hebben gedaan:

Het onwijs mooie station van Antwerpen!



































We zijn naar het Diamantenmuseum geweest! Bling Bling













En verder...



Een zeer geslaagde dag!

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Ja ja ja echt waar.



Ons eerste bericht!!
vanaf nu kunnen jullie op het internet bekijken wat wij allemaal meemaken. is dat niet leuk!
we zullen veel foto's erop zetten en natuurlijk even vertellen hoe het met ons gaat.
Tot snel.