Finding Comfort and Discomfort Through Foodways Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Public Folklore Project

This article describes an international oral history project run by the nonprofit Center for Food and Culture on how individuals found both comfort and discomfort through foodways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project expanded the concept of comfort food to include the range of activities included within foodways and also explored the variety of meanings attached to the concept, emphasizing that both “food” and “comfort” are culturally and socially constructed. The project resulted in an archive of documentation from over 65 interviews, a virtual symposium, and an on-line exhibit. The exhibit and resources on comfort food, folkloristic approaches to foodways, and oral history methods are posted on a free website (www.foodandculture.org). As such, the project is an example of public folklore presentations of folkloristic concepts and materials. It also illustrates public humanities in its exploration of the meanings of comfort foodways during the pandemic. This paper describes the findings from this project and discusses their implications for insights into individuals’ experiences around foodways practices during the pandemic. The lead author designed and directed the project; the additional authors contributed in its development, conducted interviews, participated in the symposium and exhibit, and offered commentary and insights on this paper

Discrete unified gas kinetic scheme on unstructured meshes

The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume method for multiscale flow computations with asymptotic preserving property. The solution of the Boltzmann model equation is directly used for the construction of numerical flux and makes the scheme applicable in all flow regimes. In previous applications of the DUGKS, structured meshes have been mostly employed, which may have difficulties for problems with complex geometries. In this paper we will extend the DUGKS to unstructured meshes, with the implementation of computational fluid dynamics techniques to the DUGKS. Several test cases, i.e., the cavity flow ranging from continuum to free molecular regimes, a multiscale flow problem between two connected cavities with large pressure and density variations, high speed flows past multiple cylinders in slip and transitional regimes, and an impulsive start problem are performed. The results are compared with the well-defined Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) or Navier-Stokes (NS) solutions in their applicable regimes. The numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DUGKS for the study of multiscale flow problems

Solution of laminar flame problems by use of the analog computer : final report

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Theoretical investigation of one-dimensional flame propagation : quarterly report no. 3.

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Solution of partial differential equations by difference methods using the electronic differential analyzer : status report no. 3 : interim report for the period June 1, 1953 to August 31, 1953

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