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My original inspiration for this blog was Peter Budgell's Ansys tips and Ansys tricks web page that was hand coded in HTML circa 1999. I unfortunately only discovered it relatively recently. It is enlightening though some of it is a bit dated. As Peter wrote:

"I find that writing these pages improves my own insight, encourages me to learn more, and helps me broaden the number of things I consider in setting up and post-processing finite element models"

I'm not as seasoned as many analyst but I hope some of the post would be useful to others.

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