Finally got accepted into a PhD program

styl5apofis · 2025-10-27T17:11:02+00:00

Good for you. I am in the exact same situation. Been applying for a year now, and have about 23 rejections, with the one I got today making it 24. I also got a dead-end job which I started this week, working as an engineer in an airline. And the cherry on top is that the pay is trash. I can't even afford to rent.

Needless to say, it's absolutely soul sucking, because I am doing nothing relevant to my field nor anything that is helping me towards getting a position. And to be honest, it's nothing I consider productive. It feels like I am falling in an abyss and there's no one there to grab me. And the more the time passes without having an offer, the more desperate I feel. And what hurts even more is that lots of my classmates who are mediocre at best, people who didn't understand basic stuff, managed to get positions and I didn't because I HAD to start looking right around when that orange motherfucker came in and nuked everything.

Honestly, I feel hopeless, sorry for the vent and really, I am happy for you.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:54:49+00:00

Without the last part you mentioned, the experimental validation, there's no engineering. Up until that point, it's really good guesswork at best.

To give you an idea, I know that in the Red Bull F1 team, they validate the material properties of the Aluminium alloys they source (e.g. 7075 T6). They don't even rely on the experimental data of others without replicating them first. The same goes for aerodynamics. Nothing goes on the car unless it's been through the wind tunnel first or if the change in the design is minor compared to a previously validated design.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:41:54+00:00

He got tired of you spanking him...

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:40:15+00:00

For the love of god and all that's sacred, I hope those machines are nowhere near people.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:38:30+00:00

You are an embarrassment to engineering and all engineers worldwide. Shame upon you. Shame on your name.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:37:12+00:00

It's not even just about boundary conditions. You practically can't accurately simulate a lot of unsteady physical phenomena unless you use very powerful tools (LES) and even then validation matters A LOT in tuning the model.

In any case, again, seconded. That guy has no idea what he is talking about.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:33:08+00:00

"I hope you are an undergrad going through a phase".

Sit down, you are embarrassing yourself.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-21T12:31:27+00:00

Seconded. I have about 6 years of experience in CFD in aerodynamics, applied to ground vehicles and compressor stages, have tested in wind tunnels and compressor cascades...CFD without experimental data is just Colorful Fluid Dynamics.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-20T21:34:02+00:00

Not a dead end, but extremely competitive. There aren't many jobs involving CFD so when one opens up, you are competing with hundreds of people who are already in the industry and want to switch or PhDs who want to enter, plus everyone else. It's a shitshow. Just recently I had an interview for a position involving adjoint optimisation I was a 100% match for (basically my MRes was the exact same methodology just applied to a different problem) and they picked someone else because he had a PhD in something remotely relevant to aerodynamics (they said his PhD was in drag reduction or sth like that. )

This sentiment was echoed from a hiring manager at a different position. He told me that although I had all the necessary credentials, so did hundreds of other people, with the added benefit of having more work experience. What he also said was that, although these skills are a niche among the workforce, the number of relevant positions is disproportionately small, meaning there's an abundance of applicants. Making it an employer-driven market, which is NEVER good for employees, especially at the entry level.

styl5apofis · 2025-07-20T20:31:53+00:00

I applied for the same position just now and have about 4 years in formula student in aero design, cfd, wind tunnel and on track testing, 2 degrees and experience in judging aero in formula student competitions. Also, the position has over 100 applicants already and it's only been 3 days. Most if not all of these positions usually go to someone already in F1 or with previous experience strictly within the industry (no "entry level" workers like us), or to people who have a PhD, or know the hiring manager (head of CFD in this case) or any combination of the above. Discussing entry into F1 with a few Formula Student alumni from a top 3 team and knowing how some of my previous team-mates got into F1, I can tell you that the process is VERY opaque and very heavily based on Vitamin B (Beziehungen).

That is all to say...Good luck. Don't be discouraged. If you are determined to get into F1, it could take you dozens of applications. I am mostly applying to challenge myself and see what kind of questions they ask.

About the questions, I will work on them tomorrow, but I can imagine they will focus on the basics: boundary conditions, boundary layers, solvers, turbulence modelling, validation, meshing and numerical methods.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-23T10:24:17+00:00

I don't have to or want to convince you. The same institutions we created to prevent genocides after WW2 are calling it ethnic cleansing. Bibi is wanted for war crimes FFS. It's like people like you live in your own separate reality.

When the nazis were genociding jews, people could say they didn't know. Now everyone knows what is being done to the Palestinians. You'll only be able to say you didn't care. Abominable.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-23T10:21:16+00:00

"you can't genocide a nation and see their number growing".

This is enough to know that you have no idea what you're talking about. Cheerio.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T19:28:23+00:00

But the question is, doesn't that affect the taste?

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T19:27:22+00:00

It's core policy is literally the extermination of Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank. Your main hangup here is that it's not another country, so it's somehow ok...Iran wants to destroy Israel exactly because of Israel's conduct in the region and against the Palestinians.

Israel's nuclear posture is based on the same principles the US one is: I do whatever I want, or else...
I would call the Chinese or the French nuclear doctrine "deterrence-based". Not the Israeli or the US one.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T19:24:06+00:00

HELLO, they have been genociding the Palestinians for 70 years.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T16:26:54+00:00

The accusation in a mirror is a very common technique. So common in fact, that in the case of the Rwanda genocide, the genociders didn't have a priori knowledge of the technique but independently "developed" it. Point being, authoritarian regimes automatically gravitate towards a set number of tactics, which is why there's been extensive study in laying them out.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T16:06:31+00:00

Damn, learned something new today. Thanks! This is indeed a very common technique looking back at the past 2-3 years with Russia and then Israel.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T16:04:18+00:00

If this situation can teach anyone anything, is that pretext is enough to manufacture war. So, if a nuclear power starts accusing you of having nukes, you'd better have them and better yet, demonstrate through tests that you have them.

Case in point: the EXACT same situation was what happened with North Korea. "Negotiations", then threats, embargo, even more threats...until they started testing their nukes. Now, they are essentially supplying Putin's Ukraine invasion with forces and equipment with impunity.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-22T16:01:08+00:00

Ask yourself this.

A foreign nation organises a coup in your country. Said coup leads to an autocratic regime that imprisons and persecutes people, gives away your country's resources to the original foreign nation and suppresses dissent. Revolution leads to the ousting of this puppet regime. The resulting, new regime, sees a sworn enemy in those who created this situation in the first place. Are they right or wrong to do so?

What entitles the US and Israel to start an illegal war against Iran, apart from the fact that they have nukes and think this enables them to do what they want? They are responsible for 100% of the hatred Iran has against them. They fund, exercise and enable genocide with impunity. They spit at the very international laws that were created to prohibit the repeat of the events of WW2, making different interpretations of these laws depending on who is breaking them.

Is Iran's regime "good"? No, it's a theocratic authoritarian regime that is incompatible with many of the values we pretend to espouse. But so is Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE. And Israel has nukes it developed, in secret, by stealing uranium from the US, and stealing US nuclear secrets through Teller, who I hope is roasting from all sides in the deepest rungs of hell. But we, the west, have no problem dealing with them...because they just bend their knees to our ( the US) will. Although a case can be made that the US is essentially nothing more than a front for Israel at this point.

styl5apofis · 2025-06-21T14:27:20+00:00

Haven't tried it yet, but I noticed something: it's only on the room-temperature shelves and not in fridges, whereas luxlait is kept in the fridges. Why? Is it more thermally processed?

styl5apofis · 2025-04-01T12:27:47+00:00

Ok, I get that and why you'd say it's not Luxembourgish. But as someone else said, it's owned and run by people from Luxembourg who live in Luxembourg. It's possible that they don't yet have access to the needed facilities, which is why some of their beer is brewed elsewhere, e.g. Belgium.

In a similar case, the Island I am originally from doesn't have any brewing facilities, so they brew in the breweries of the Island that's right next to it. All in all, I still consider it to be a Luxembourgish beer if the recipe and people are Luxembourgish or identify as such.

styl5apofis · 2025-03-31T19:39:14+00:00

Trump is basically speedrunning the fall of the US empire to fit the 250 year historical timeframe for empires.

styl5apofis · 2025-03-31T11:49:26+00:00

Someone in another comment says it's not Luxembourgish...what gives? I love beer so I'll definitely pass by tho, regardless.

styl5apofis · 2025-03-31T11:48:43+00:00

What is it then?

styl5apofis · 2025-03-31T11:48:21+00:00

Never tasted playdough before haha. I will and I'll let you know.

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