During my MSc, I was implementing, validating, and comparing multiple numerical methods for a certain field of Aeroacoustics. Most (peer-reviewed!) papers had e

During my MSc, I was implementing, validating, and comparing multiple numerical methods for a certain field of Aeroacoustics. Most (peer-reviewed!) papers had errors, some glaring, some subtle. The cynic in me thought those were done on purpose so that results were harder to reproduce. There was one specific signal change (a + to a - in an equation) that took me almost a month of hitting my head against a wall to figure out...