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AskMeAvoutMyCousins wrote

I appreciate the offer and may take you up on it.

The length is just "adequate to fully realize your project." Most in my department are 40-100 pages.

I am computationally analyzing the behavior of ions making up ionic currents in neurons and their effect on the water molecules they are surrounded by during MRI sequences. The mucky math is magnetohydrodynamics.

I have yet to write any code for this. Once I have a framework for how to simulate all that I need to figure out the math and how to turn into python code.

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AskMeAvoutMyCousins wrote

I'm not really sure how long it'll take. I have experience with python but only for analyzing and visualizing data that already exists in big catalogs. Simulation isn't something I have ever done before.

I expect writing the program and getting it to provide useful data will be the longest part. The other parts being 1) obtaining the necessary mathematical and conceptual background and 2) writing the thesis (which I should do in conjunction with all other parts) and 3) preparing for my defense.

The foundational paper I'm working from used MATLAB, which I have only used briefly, years ago, for an undergraduate class. My python experience comes from a previous research project.

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