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>>18494355
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>>18494355
Not bad, honestly. CFD is a big deal in basically any subset of what you're wanting to do, and aerospace sounds like a good field. That being said, it's probably gonna be hard to deal with ITAR restrictions.

I don't know shit about engineering or its research prospects. But I know some universities will pay you a stipend for either masters or doctoral work. You can just lurk around some universities that interest you and see if their engineering department caters to your research prospects.

>>18494355
>ANSYS Fluent - fuck my life. Used that in my master thesis. Ended up simulating stuff on a computing cluster
>model was 3d with ~20GB mesh size, prepared by assistant ofsupervisor
>waited each time a week or more for jobs to start on cluster (took hours on 128++ cores)
>local PC with 128GB Ram and dual 10-cores was also not that fast. simulation took days
>supervisor was telling me my thesis was no benefit for me
>fighting the weird UDFs in ANSYS Fluent
>having nightmares of segfaults
>creaating UDF by trial and error
>fuking C89 in UDFs
>UDFs are not calculating stuff, they supposed to, so try and error
>Success: creating moving energy disposition on object surface which is like a square - appoximate square by lines in c code
>
>getting worse grade
>girlfriend leaves me
>
>searching over an year for a job
>even applying at megacorp
>
>getting job at small corp, doing something else, never touched ansys since then
>
>supervisor gets high payed job at megacorp
>
this was 2 years ago

now, and since then:
>megacorp and university are searching for people continuing my job, even paid good (40-60k€)
>Would not start this, even for 200 times the money
>Would more likely simulate nukes in the LLNL than doing this shit at megacorp, because of honour and acknowledgement
>fuck megacorp

>>18494357
I have an almost perfect research topic, I just don't have the resources here (no super computers, labs aren't sufficient, almost all programs are illegally downloaded, w/o proper licensing, cannot use crucial MATLAB/ANSYS features)
>>18494449
I know your suffering. There are other programs though. You should've contacted their technical support.

I remember my friend working on a flapping wing UFD. Literally started the simulation 2 weeks before the Dissertation Defence (BSc, University of Khartoum).
>mfw he was studying for more than 8 months (C, aerodynamics, bird and insect wing motion)
>mfw the simulation took 10 days
>mfw we were helping him writing his literature review and conclusion 1 hour before deadline.
>mfw he got an A because he exploited every available resource to carry out the simulation though couldn't finish successfully

He cannot utter "ANSYS" w/o mentioning how stupid it is.

>>18494357
Would appreciate suggestions

>>18495003
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Germany has free tuition you just pay for your living expenses