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Foil 4 Overview of Topics in CPS713 Case Study II) Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Relativity

From Overview of Monte Carlo Case Study CPSP713 -- Autumn Semester 1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Paul Coddington


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



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