William's Cog Page

I'm one of the founding members of CodeCogs, with a passion for Engineering, Financial risk modelling and Software development.

Computers and technology in general are fantastic tools that enable us to work more efficiently and quickly. I'm continually shocked at how bad technology is utilised within mechanical, civil and marine engineering, where many manual tasks can be automated in minutes. My aim with CodeCogs is to break down the barriers between programming and engineering, and allow anyone to quickly access numerical components and assemble their own solutions. The key point is making software adapt to the way you work, rather than making you adapt to the software.

My engineering personal expertise stems from my own PhD on the Directionality of Extreme Ocean Waves at Imperial College. Throughout my working career, I have remained in some way or another, involved within fluid mechanics, including the following topics:

• BST is my fully nonlinear directional wave model. It can accurately simulate all the physical processes (cumulative nonlinearities) etc, in the formation of extreme, freak or rogue waves (depending on what you want to call them)
• CFD modelling oil-water separators, including the use of micro-bubbles to aid separation.
• Hydrology (modelling river flow), and the creation of stochastic simulation of river flooding in the UK, Belgium and Czech Republic. These models are used in insurance to estimate the expected losses at different return periods. 
• storm surge modelling - principally the east coast of the UK and simulating the 1953 storms. 

I hope you'll find this website useful and I would greatly appreciate any comments or support to help us develop the site further.

Will.