Ben Trettel

This website is an index of some public projects and writings of mine. I have contact information on a separate page.

Projects and writings

BlasterSim: simulates pneumatic and spring compressed gas guns with a lumped parameter model written in modern Fortran (under development)
Fortran libraries and tools I developed for my own use. Some of the more notable parts:

genunits: A code generation approach to compile-time unit checking in Fortran.
tripwire.py: A Python script which helps keep docs in sync with code by returning a message if certain lines of code change.
geninput: A program to simultaneously generate consistent 1. Fortran namelist group input code including input validation and 2. documentation for each namelist group.

plint: patent claim proofreader and analyzer for 112(b) issues, restrictions, and other issues
My academic publications (local copies and preprints)
A comment discussing and linking to other discussion of my research paper collection
A long Stack Exchange answer I wrote on finding translations of scientific papers
specialized bibs (My most starred repository on GitHub for some reason!)
WaterWar.net

Old projects

SSCentral (2003-2010): Old Super Soaker fan site and forum that I ran in the past. Please note that this site has not been significantly updated in over 15 years and is out of date in many places. Updating the site is a very low priority task for me, unfortunately.
NerfHaven: Some people know me as an administrator at the now inactive forum NerfHaven.

Places you'll find me online

I am currently (June 2026) looking for a new job. I am willing to relocate anywhere in the lower 48 US states for the right opportunity. Please contact me if your organization could use a computational fluid dynamics engineer or someone with my skill set otherwise.