MV:
This past week I continued my work on designing the topology that our
pipes will have to cross. On Monday I interviewed Dr. Chen and cleared
up some details about the algorithm I am using. I wrote a C program that
creates a 50x50 matrix of the landscape, and a function that finds the
optimal path from the water source to any point (including the town) on
the grid. The advantage of this is that it will allow placement of the
water treatment "facility" anywhere on the grid. I could make an added
challenge of having the land be too hilly near the Spring and have a
couple of plateaus that would be suitable (I could also construct them in
different shapes so as to allow for different versions of the water plant).
DN:
Research and construction of pumps was the focus of this weeks events, at
least for this group member. I made my rounds of the engineering library to
dig up various fluid mechanics books and such to gain som eknowledge on the
inner workings of a fluid pump. I built a simple, albeit not very powerful,
prototype for a radial pump. There will be further tests for this pump to
uncover the mysteries of making it more powerful.
WM:
