emperorreagan

Writing literature reviews is definately not my strong point.

Invariably, I get a late start on trying to find sources and find that I can't obtain many of them directly through the University of Maryland system. Interlibrary loan can get most of them for me, however, it can take a week or two for some of them.

For the sources in the system, usually I'll pack up a scanner and laptop and head to whichever library has them. I'll spend a day scanning in articles...then not look at them for 2 weeks.

I should simply spring for a guest membership at the Johns Hopkins library, where I hear they have full access to all of the major scientific journals in pdf format via sciencedirect and other services.

But now I sit with tons of journal articles to read and 4 solid pages of a 15 page literature review to write, on the surface topography resulting from abrasive waterjet machining.

And I'm not working it. I'm reading message boards, posting in a journal...

Fortunately my paper for fluid mechanics is straight forward. Flow through an elliptical conduit has been done before - I simply have to reduce my governing equations and assume a solution of a particular form.

I'd rather do experiments.