Program

Saturday, March 17
Morning: Lectures on hyperbolic PDEs and high-resolution TVD numerical discretization
Afternoon: Tutorials: Git, Python, Numpy, PyClaw

Suggested reading: Leveque Finite Difference Methods
Sections 10.1-10.2, 10.10-10.11, Appendix E.3

Sunday, March 18
Morning: Lectures on TVD and non-oscillatory methods for hyperbolic PDEs
Afternoon: PyClaw tutorial and numerical demonstrations

Monday, March 19
Morning: Lectures on strong stability preservation for linear IVPs
Afternoon: Introduction to RK-Opt and NodePy software

Tuesday, March 20
Morning: Lectures on strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta methods
Afternoon: Experiments and mini-projects with RK-Opt and NodePy

Wednesday, March 21
Further lectures depending on interest; work on individual projects

Thursday, March 22
Snorkeling in Obhur

Saturday, March 24
Further lectures depending on interest; work on individual projects

Some resources used for the course

Instructor

Prof. David Ketcheson

Students

  • Sidafa Conde
  • Chris Bresten
  • Zachary Grant
  • Igor Savastianov
  • Adrian Nemeth
  • Tihamer Kocsis
  • Yiannis Hadjimichael

Additional participants

  • Matteo Parsani
  • Lajos Loczi

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