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GeneralI can see a light!! I hope it's not some oncoming train!!! Pin
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Dr.Walt Fair, PE11-Apr-14 7:54
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Congratulations! It's a good feeling knowing that you will actually finish.

I ran into something similar in my PhD research. Darn program just wouldn't give the right answers. I finally tracked it down to a typo in some technical papers, which had been copied by others and put into other source code. Everyone said they tested it, but no one actually tested it over the range of parameter I'm interested in.

Once I found that, everything works fine and I can match experimental data within the measurement accuracy with my numerical models. So, after about 3 or 4 months of fighting and banging my head, I finished that and another module and wrote the documentation in a week. Now 2 more modules to write, then test, then I can finish my dissertation and get ready to defend it.

As you said, it is frustrating, but the feeling of relief and joy when you finally see a light at the end of the tunnel is fantastic!
CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software


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