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

From Overview of CFD and Numerical Relativity Case Study CPSP713 -- Autumn Semester 1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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

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