Chapter 901 The one-year period has arrived!

In short, although Chang Haonan only released a trailer for his new paper, it caused quite a stir in both the academic and business circles.

In addition to COMSOL, several other similar products also quickly found technical experts or technical teams to track and analyze his research trends.

Of course, since most competitors do not specialize in two-phase flow, they either try it out briefly or, like COMSOL, continue with their original development path after analyzing it for a while.

Only ANSYS, which developed Fluent in its early years, saw the potential behind this paper.

But I also encountered a similar problem as Professor Jameson -

I really can't think of how to generate unstructured grids accurately and efficiently in a Cartesian coordinate system.

Logically speaking, when encountering this kind of situation, since others have already published the papers, they can either poach the authors with high salaries, or even if they cannot poach them, they can just provide the authors with a research topic.

But this time the situation is too special.

The person who wrote the paper was the boss of the rival company.

It's so funny, how do you dig this?

So for now we can only wait and see what Torch Group will do next.

Some science and technology media have reignited the popularity of this matter with headlines such as "The prover of the Poincare conjecture posts on arXiv again".

However, we cannot entirely blame these media for making trouble out of nothing.

The main reason is that the timing was too coincidental.

You know, the proof of the Poincare conjecture was not finished yet.

A year ago, the Clay Mathematics Institute made it clear that although the Poincare conjecture was proved almost at the same time as it was officially announced, it still ranks among the "Millennium Problems in Mathematics."

That is to say, the two provers can share a huge prize of 100 million US dollars in total.

According to the rules set at the time, the money would be officially awarded at the earliest one year after the paper was published.

If after one year, the proof still fails to gain consensus in the mathematical community, its publication will be delayed until it is formally recognized.

Of course, Chang Haonan and Perelman's proof process was recognized in less than a month, so the latter clause was not triggered.

And now, the one-year period has arrived.

Everyone is ready to see whether your Cray Research Institute is really prepared to pay the money as promised, or is just talking big.

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However, compared with the disturbances in the outside world, Chang Haonan himself was not too concerned about the aftermath caused by this submission.

During this period, he was reviewing the manuscripts in the editorial mailbox to decide which of them would be published in the first issue of JCAS journal.

Normally, the editor-in-chief does not need to be personally responsible for this work, but after all, this is China's first attempt to enter the mainstream international academic community, so it is normal for the standards to be higher.

However, the actual situation is that everyone in the editorial department is much more optimistic.

After all, Chang Haonan’s reputation is really effective in China.

Many people even turned their papers that were originally planned to be submitted to top journals in the field to the JCAS editorial department.

For example, Professor Feng Qi from the Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences submitted the gene sequencing and analysis results of rice chromosome 4.

Although it is only 4 pages long, it is an important part of the genome sequencing work.

These are results that can definitely be published in Nature or Science.

It can definitely be regarded as full support for the work.

In addition, there are many names that Chang Haonan is familiar with.

Xu Yang, who has been running between the Institute of Computing Technology and Torch Group, has developed a high-dimensional observation method for linearized water wave problems with distributed or point measurement capabilities.

Professor Lin Guofan of Jincheng University proposed a new meteorological theory on the formation mechanism of major weather disasters in southern China...

In short, although the overall strength of China's academic community is still relatively weak at the beginning of the 21st century, it is more than enough to support a quarterly journal by concentrating the strength of research institutions across the country.

Of course, since it is a publication for international distribution, it is impossible that it only contains articles by Chinese scholars.

As more and more people saw the papers published by Chang Haonan on arXiv, some foreign researchers also submitted articles to the editorial department.

However, foreigners will not have any special feelings towards your new journal.

Therefore, the quality of these papers is unexpectedly uniform.

There is no chance of getting published if I submit to all the top journals, but I am not willing to submit to some small journals. It just so happens that there is a new platform with the support of such a big player, so I might as well take a gamble and try my luck.

This is consistent with Chang Haonan's initial positioning of JCAS.

But when compared with those obviously high-quality submissions from China, it is inevitable that I feel that they are tasteless and a pity to throw away.

Therefore, when Yuan Xiangya specially rushed to visit Chang Haonan in his office, the latter was comparing two papers from the same school on the screen with a conflicted look on his face, unable to make up his mind for a while.

"Professor Chang, no, Editor-in-Chief Chang, thank you for your hard work recently."

The former placed some gifts he brought next to the desk and then sat on another office chair opposite.

Chang Haonan raised his eyelids, confirmed that there were no sensitive valuables, and then took them without hesitation -

During this period, his identity was just that of an editor-in-chief and a workhorse, so it was only natural for him to accept some nutritional supplements from the other party.

In fact, Yuan Xiangya is also a member of the editorial team.

It’s just that there are too few papers related to his field of expertise among the manuscripts received, so he has very little time.

"Don't mention it. I never thought I would receive so many manuscripts. Apart from sleeping and eating, I have been reading papers almost all the time these days. I feel like my brain is numb..."

Chang Haonan said as he closed both papers, then dragged one of them into a folder named "First Issue".

The other article will certainly not be rejected, but it will probably have to wait until the second issue in August to be published...

"In fact, the actual number of submissions is more than ten times what we see."

Yuan Xiangya had worked in a journal editorial department before, so he is much more experienced than Chang Haonan in this regard:

"Those with outrageous content, or pure spam, or data problems that can be seen at a glance... have actually been picked out by the editors below."

“How many are left?”

Chang Haonan was immediately shocked.

"no way……"

Yuan Xiangya replied in a helpless tone:

"We didn't expect that Professor Chang has such a strong appeal. It was indeed a mistake. We should have scheduled the publication bimonthly... and the quality of the manuscripts is much higher than we thought..."

"Forget it then. After all, we are just starting out, so it's better to be steady."

Chang Haonan was relatively calm about the current situation, so he waved his hand:

"Our journal is now like Zou Ji. His wives, concubines and guests all said that he was more beautiful than Xu Gong in the north of the city, but that doesn't mean it's true. If you look at more submissions, you will find that the high-level ones are all Chinese scholars in China or overseas. They have a filter for our journal and can't be regarded as normal."

As he said this, he reopened his mailbox and prepared to check the next email.

However, at this moment, the continuous movements suddenly stopped.

"I am worried that the publication interval of the quarterly journal is too long. Some authors cannot wait for three months and may withdraw..."

Yuan Xiangya was chatting normally, but halfway through, he noticed that Chang Haonan was staring at the computer screen in a daze.

"Professor Chang."

"Professor Chang?"

He called out twice in succession.

"Ok?"

Chang Haonan woke up and looked at Yuan Xiangya:

"Ah... Sorry, I was a little distracted just now. What did you say just now?"

"It's okay... It's not an important topic."

Yuan Xiangya shook his head: