The question nobody asked me
On the difference between being told an answer and being asked a question, and why that difference decides what a child thinks they are capable of.
Notes
Thinking
out loud.
Short pieces on curiosity and how children learn, alongside longer notes from the research and engineering work that shaped the way I think.
Education
On curiosity, inquiry, and how children are taught.
Research & engineering
Longer notes from the work that shaped how I think about learning.
From Einstein’s equations to BSSN and FO-CCZ4
Why the covariant field equations are not yet a time-marching algorithm, and how ADM, BSSN, CCZ4, and FO-CCZ4 reorganize spacetime geometry into numerical evolution systems.
A unified model for two-phase transport of CO₂-rich mixtures
How HEM, a Helmholtz-energy EOS, stability analysis, a reformulated UVN flash, and equilibrium sound speed combine in multicomponent pipeline simulations.
Solving the multicomponent UVN flash in TVN space
A step-by-step account of stability analysis, entropy maximization, the λ = −1/T result, the Helmholtz Q-function, and why eliminating nested temperature solves matters.
From four equilibrium equations to one: faster pure-CO₂ depressurization
How the saturation curve reduces the pure-component UV flash, how differentiating the constraint yields a temperature ODE, and where the efficiency–conservation trade-off appears.
Why CO₂ pipeline transport is a thermodynamics problem
From CCS infrastructure and phase envelopes to Riemann waves, water hammer, and a proposed CO₂-hammer benchmark: an accessible map of the modelling problem.