Riding the wind of rebirth

"They arrived at work a little late, so they had to clock in first and then sneak out to eat breakfast." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "They feel embarrassed to be caught by us, right? Actually, I don't enforce attendance, so I can't do anything to them."

Then he added: "But it's a bit inappropriate to slack off while wearing your work ID card..."

Mai Xiaomiao quickly stuffed her and Zhou Zhi's number plates into her clothes: "Look at yourself before you talk about others."

The Hong Kong-style tea restaurants in Shudu are not very authentic and are very different from the ones Zhou Zhi had enjoyed in Hong Kong Island and Guangzhou. The barbecued pork buns were replaced with braised pork buns, the pearl meatballs were replaced with glutinous rice balls, and the steamed buns were replaced with anything that could be changed or replaced. The only thing that Zhou Zhi felt was authentic was the golden cake.

The tea wasn't quite right either, so to be on the safe side I simply ordered two servings of porridge, ate quickly and went back to work.

In the huge CEO's office, several young military men were sitting upright. When they saw Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao come in, they immediately stood up and saluted: "CEO Zhou, CEO Mai!"

“Wow…” Mai Xiaomiao’s eyes immediately lit up with tears. The soldiers were indeed very handsome. What’s more, some of them wore glasses, which made them look more bookish.

"Sit down, sit down, don't be so polite." Zhou Zhi asked everyone to sit down: "We are all familiar with each other online, but we have never met in real life."

"I'm Gu Congjun, this is Yao Shijie." The soldier in charge began to introduce: "This is Zhang Jie. I'm in charge of the interface, Yao Shijie is in charge of development, and Zhang Jie is in charge of operation and maintenance. We each lead a team. Chairman Jay and CEO Mai were both busy, so they didn't bring them along to introduce them to everyone."

"The progress of the project is satisfactory, which is inseparable from everyone's hard work, especially the writing of the real-time interface of nonlinear parameters, which is completely unplanned work and has caused trouble for everyone." Zhou Zhi apologized.

“No, no.” Gu Congjun waved his hand quickly: “It was President Mai who provided us with a new way of thinking, making our model more… uh, realistic.”

"It can be said that this is a brand new topic, and it is also a world-leading topic. During this period, my colleagues have been working overtime and it is very hard, but when talking about the direction of work and achievements, they are all very excited." Yao Shijie also said: "Mr. Mai also told us that if the nonlinear simulation is done well, we can not only conduct a series of experiments, but also..."

"What else?" Zhou Zhi couldn't think of anything.

"Mr. Mai has given us a new idea." Gu Congjun said excitedly: "The nonlinear simulation we are doing now is to put the designed fluid model into the environment to let the fluid impact and test the effect."

"This is actually just a function similar to a wind tunnel, but it is simulated by a computer. No matter how well it is done, at most it is just an 'electronic wind tunnel'."

"However, information technology can compress time through models, which means that we can use computing tools to simulate situations over hundreds or thousands of years, which is something that a real wind tunnel cannot achieve." Yao Shijie said seriously, "Then we can not only conduct fluid experiments, we can even let the fluid itself design the most natural fluid shape."

"Natural weathering!" Zhou Zhi suddenly came to his senses, and in his mind were the magical and beautiful lines of the Anyue stone carvings after being weathered for thousands of years: "Simulate natural weathering!"

"Complete natural weathering is not applicable," said Gu Congjun. "But the general idea is similar, but the parameters of the conditions are much more complicated than those of natural weathering."

"We have done the simplest simulation." Zhang Jie turned the laptop in front of her over and showed it to Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao. On it was a picture of a drop of water falling.

"Ah! Sister Zhang, you guys succeeded?!" Mai Xiaomiao jumped up excitedly.

Tears welled up in Zhang Jie's eyes: "Yes, we succeeded." "Wait! Isn't this just a drop of water?" Zhou Zhi said he didn't understand at all.

"This is a program simulation of the automatic correction of the shape of a high-density fluid when it is moving at a uniform acceleration in a low-density fluid."

"High-density fluid is water, low-density fluid is air, uniformly accelerated motion is free fall motion..." Zhou Zhi still didn't understand: "Isn't this still a drop of water?"

"The key is automatic correction!" Mai Xiaomiao shook Zhou Zhi's shoulders. "This is the optimal solution we got after we input many parameters and let Xiaozhi learn and correct itself! This solution is consistent with the solution of water droplets in nature! This shows that our nonlinear simulation operation was completely successful! This shows that this design idea is completely feasible!"

"Yes!" Zhou Zhi was shocked and jumped up: "This is the right of nature!"

"In fact, water droplet simulation is relatively simple and can be solved by linear algorithms, but this time we solved it through a nonlinear simulation program, using a different method." Gu Congjun is a very calm person, and he can't help feeling proud when talking about this: "With this algorithm, we can add some conditions to the system, such as changing two fluids into one fluid and a hollow solid. The solid has some contents that affect its shape and can also generate its own power."

"After setting it up, we put it into the system, and the system can automatically adjust the shape of this hollow solid to achieve the maximum propulsion efficiency..."

"Cough cough cough..." Zhang Jie started to pretend coughing, meaning to remind Gu Congjun not to continue.

But Zhou Zhi already understood, his mouth was almost split to his ears, Gu Congjun must be talking about the appearance design of the submarine!

This directly opens up a new world of fluid mechanics design. The system in the black box will no longer be just an "electronic wind tunnel" for verifying propeller design plans, but a magical device that can iterate calculations and adjust parameters on its own to derive the optimal propulsion model under specific conditions!

"Artificial...intelligence?" The words came from Zhou Zhi's mouth, but Zhou Zhi himself couldn't believe it.

"That's a good word." Mai Xiaomiao nodded: "You're really good, Elbow. You had foresight when you named Xiaozhi."

"Artificial intelligence?" Gu Congjun and others felt the hairs on their backs stand up. They heard that the information engineering management master opposite them was a liberal arts graduate, no, he hadn't even graduated yet, but he was really good at putting words together.

Although the current model is still far from being “intelligent”, if we continue down this path…

"Ahem," Zhou Zhi drew everyone's attention back: "In this case, the amount of program modification you have to do is huge."

"Yes, we didn't expect your technical level to reach this level before we came here, so we were not fully prepared." Gu Congjun smiled bitterly, "Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Mai, we have gained a lot of experience in interface writing through on-the-job training. Next, we will carry out internal system transformation with this experience."

"If you need any help, whether it's in life or work, just ask," Zhou Zhi said, "We will fully cooperate."

“It’s true.” Mai Xiaomiao raised his hand immediately.

Zhou Zhi was stunned. Xiao Miao, didn't you figure out which side you belong to? (End of this chapter)