For the full duration of work experience, I was given a task to make two aircraft using a 3D modeling program, Open VSP. I will be making a Cessna 210 and another of my choosing. The picture below shows the beginning stages of by Cessna 210 model. After completing the 3D models, I will be able to run a variety of tests to show the aerodynamics of each. The main challenges that I have found with this program are figuring out how to utilize the different operations, to be able to imagine parts of the 3D object in relation to other parts and to understand some terms. Terms include ellipsoid, tessellation, and CFD mesh.
In the afternoon, I attended a meeting with other Ph.D. students to understand how to use GitHub, which allows for a more reliable and more organized way of storing commits of code. We made several repertoires and experimented with branching, forking, cloning, merging, pulling. We soon discovered that GitHub, similar to other online collaboration programs, still has trouble merging different versions. We will be problem-solving tomorrow to decrease the likelihood of lost work due to this issue.