SUBJECT
Title
Computer aided modeling
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
The goal of this computer lab is to give hands-on experience and to try in practice the methods learned during the “Computer simulations in physics” course. Students install, configure and run state-of-art physics simulation software, visualize and analyze the results, compare them to result found in scientific papers. Examples: Cosmological N-body simulations with Gadget2. Hydrodynamics simulations using OpenFOAM. Molecular dynamics with the HOOMD-blue package.
Readings
required readings:
- V. Springel: The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 364, 1105–1134 (2005)
- Piet Hut and Jun Makino: An Introduction to the N-Body Problem with computer simulation codes in C++, http://www.artcompsci.org/msa/web/index.html
- Hrvoje Jasak, Aleksandar Jemcov, Zeljko Tukovic: OpenFOAM: A C++ Library for Complex Physics Simulations, International Workshop on Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 19th-21st 2007
recommended readings:
- Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods by H. Gould and J. Tobochnik, (Addison-Wesley, 1996)