Recent content by Dr Flame

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I wanted to say the same that Asteropaeus said. I think all the top universities I know in Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, France and other european countries have highly research oriented bachelor and masters programs (with several mandatory research activities included, even if they do not...

Well, I think not many PhD advisors would allow that, since it is cheaper to have a PhD student than a Postdoc. It could also be that, since research projects are externally funded, the PhD advisor has some money available for PhD Fellowships, but not for Postdocs. If the student has an external...

Hi everyone, I have read here several times that in Europe you only need 3 years for the PhD, but almost every person that I know has needed between 4-5 years for completion. This added to the 2 years for the master, gives an average of 6-7 years for the PhD, which is the average time in the...

It was probably my mistake to assume that everyone knows that mechanical engineers normally only have Newtonian mechanics. Unfortunately, I do not know the Hamiltonian formalism. But yes, you are probably right: I should start checking how far I can go with the exercises to see what is really...

Yes sure, as a mechanical engineering student I had several courses on calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis, statistics and probability. As a PhD student and now as a researcher focussed on theoretical combustion I have gone much deeper in those subjects and...

Hi All! thanks a lot for this great forum!... I really love it and spend a lot of time reading the threads (when I have time of course, hehe). I am searching some advice and I think this is the best place to get it!. I apologize in advance for the long post! and thank you all for reading! My...