Here comes November. The next half of the semester began, and Flint kept making progress!
On Monday the team got detailed feedback from the advisors on Halves. The team discussed on some feedback, and tried to make appointment for several faculties for details regarding some of them. Also on Monday, we bought the MegaFlow plugin to better visualize the wind pattern in the experience. We believed this could improve the experience a lot.
On Tuesday the team invited Jessica Hammer to talk about how should we improve the experience, especially the “competition” in it. To have a common ground about the competition, and to balance the two major topics (i.e. aerodynamics in blade design, and wind pattern correlated to landscape), Jessica brought several ideas for the team to discuss. It was very helpful!
On Wednesday, our installation designer talked with the client on some of the dimensions regarding the installation, and further improved the design documents.
On Thursday we had Dr. Scott Stevens come in our room and shared several papers and open source software on blade design related calculations and/or simulations. The team would look into how these may be applied into the experience.
On Friday’s regular meeting, the client passed by a content expert in wind energy area. We immediately made contact with this expert – Dr. Deborah Stine from the Scott Institute of Energy – and invited her to come and talk with us. Dr. Stine replied gladly that she would love to come at the end of November. We would prepare a bunch of questions to ask which would definitely help!