(PHYSICS 6100)
Last Modified Sept. 13, 2012
Babbage's Analytical Engine (1850's) - a touch slow for most simulations and visualization.
08/21/12
08/23/12
08/28/12
POVRay: http://www.povray.org
Bink
Video: http://www.radgametools.com/
09/04/12
Integration
examples intended to get you unstuck on warm-up1: 1 2 3 4 5
Note:I go
through these "cold turkey" in class and so it will be instructive
for you to compare what we do in class to what is posted here.
09/18/12
Finite Differences with Example Problem Statements (to be posted)
Example: Free Fall code raw results and plot
Example: Drag Resistance code raw
results and plot
Example: Radioactive Decay code raw results and plot
Example: Damped Oscillator code raw results and plot
Example:
Laplace's Equation Temperature Distribution code raw results and plot
09/25/12 Time Dependent Heat Equation simulation on a rectangle
Time dependent clamped string equation
10/02/12
Monte Carlo integration example
Note:I go
through these "cold turkey" in class and so it will be instructive
for you to compare what we
do in
class to what is posted here.
10/09/12
Background
on the Material Point Method (MPM) (to be posted)
Detailed paper on MPM and brief outline of the algorithm
Sectioned MPM Code for Student Use
Variable List and Descriptions
10/16/12
Particle
Dynamics Simulation (to be posted)
10/23/12 Good paper outlining approaches to and gains from parallel
computing
Paper describing heat equation solved in parallel
Parallel
programmimg example "hello" and compile/run script
Parallel integration example "intervals" and compile/run script
11/06/12
Molecular Dynamics Introduction
About
NAMD: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/
About VMD: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
11/13/12
An
Accident Reconstruction Example (to be posted)
Useful Programs and Papers
Rutishauser's Method for eigenvlaues / eigenvectors in C++
Paper on confined Magnesium using eigenvalues and
eigenvectors (Quantum Mechanics!)
Finite difference quantum mechanical spectral calculation
for confined Mg+ (eigenvalues only) in C++
Homework Solutions
Useful Links
Some
in-house C++ stuff: http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/cpp
About Soft
Body Simulations 1 2
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