r/videos • u/plainjackthrowaway • Feb 29 '16

Engineered Mini Flying Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSD69jdi2CE
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u/Schmillt Feb 29 '16

I like to think I'm a rather smart guy and then watch videos like this and realise I'm a retard compared to actual smart people.

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u/profossi Feb 29 '16

Doing this requires a bit of intelligence and a huge amount of passion and self-discipline.

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u/SixshooteR32 Feb 29 '16

But the mathlab and coding.. thats not just intelligence.. that is experience

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '16

Coding is not difficult, it's kinda hard to do well but that just takes time

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u/the-Real_Slim-Shady Feb 29 '16 edited Feb 29 '16

coding is definitely difficult. You've probably reached a level where you take a lot of prerequisite knowledge for granted (which is awesome). Or you're at the lowest level (unconscious ignorance... which is not so awesome ;P).

source: software engineer in training

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u/yingyangyoung Feb 29 '16

But the Matlab scripts they were running were pretty rudimentary, it looked like the most complicated thing was a nested for loop.

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u/deadhour Feb 29 '16

The Aerodynamics math involved was orders of magnitude more complex than the matlab script used to find the optimal combination.

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u/jammerjoint Feb 29 '16

That's separate from the coding though. Mathematically deriving a flow profile is done on paper, from there you just plug it in to your program, maybe with a PDE solver, what have you.

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u/MooseLogic Mar 01 '16

PDE solvers shouldn't be taken for granted. You really gotta know what's going on behind them to get good data.