| Motivation for CFD -- why we need Teraflop and Petaflop performance to design new aircraft and model oil reservoirs and polluted chemical dump sites |
| Introduction to NAS benchmarks and remarks on performance of today's machines. |
| Motivation of Numerical Relativity with Collision of two black holes as expected signature for LIGO gravitational wave detector -- expected need for Teraflop performance |
| General Discussion of Continuum Physics as a model for Nature |
| The Navier Stokes Equation -- Basic equations of CFD |
| General discussion of Computational Issues for CFD |
| Introduction to Numerical formulation of Einstein's Equations |
| General discussion of computational issues for Numerical Relativity |
| Comparison of Similarities and differences between CFD and NR |