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