SUBJECT
Title
Computer simulations in physics
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
The goal of the course is to present an overview of computational physics through examples in various fields.
Topics: Numerical and analytical modeling. Model, algorithm, code. Machine precision. Serial and parallel architectures. Classical mechanics simulation. Complex dynamics, chaos, growth processes. Simulating thermodynamic systems. The role of randomness in simulations. Numerical optimization. Molecular dynamics, Verlet-algorithm. N-body simulations. Diffusion, flows, waves. Finite element method.
Readings
required readings:
- Rubin H Landau, Manuel J Paez, & Cristian Bordeianu: A Survey of Computational Physics -introductory computational science (Princeton University Press, 2008)
recommended readings:
- Computational Physics by J.M. Thijssen (Cambridge University Press, 1999)