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2018

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  • General info
  • Learning goals
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  • License and terms of usage
  • Past versions of this course

Day 1

  • Course overview
  • Key physical processes and concepts
  • Solving equations
  • Basic elements of Python
  • Functions
  • Introduction to NumPy
  • for loops
  • Conditional statements

Day 2

  • Introduction to finite differences
  • Finite differences for heat equation
  • Stability of the heat equation FD approximation
  • Heat diffusion + advection

Day 3

  • Testing your code and benchmarking
  • FD for Stokes equation
  • Solution strategy for the channel flow
  • Calculating strain rates
  • Velocity boundary conditions

Day 4

  • Cluster computing
  • Putting it all together
  • Marker-in-cell technique
  • Numerical diffusion
  • Introduction to DOUAR

Day 5

  • Helpful command line tools
  • Project overview

Technical instructions

  • Using geo-hpcc cluster
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