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Photo: Elizabeth Appelquist, Sania Lewis, Emma Elley & Hildegard Metzger
Congratulations to Maxwell’s Angels (aka Elizabeth Appelquist, Sania Lewis, Emma Elley & Hildegard Metzger) who achieved fourth place in the IBM Universities Business Challenge Grand Final in London this weekend.
By Andreas Malekos (year 4, Computational Physics)
At the end of October 2018, I was invited to attend COMSOL’s annual conference in Lausanne, Switzerland along with two other students (Arturas Jocas from the School of Mathematics and Ivan Chan from the School of Engineering). We were invited as part of HYPED, the University of Edinburgh’s student Hyperloop team. COMSOL is a finite element analysis software that was extensively used for the designs of HYPED’s second Hyperloop prototype, PODDIE the Second. The software was used to perform structural /electromagnetic simulations and optimise various parts of the pod. We presented a poster detailing how COMSOL was used. Continue reading “COMSOL Lausanne Conference Trip with HYPED”