Fundamentals of Simulation Methods (MVComp1, MVSpec)

Lecture and tutorials
This course takes place on Tuesday and Thursday in the time from 14h to 16h in HS1 of INF 227.
The tutorials are held in the CIP Pool on INF 227 (room 1.401), Wednesday 11h to 13h, Thursday 11h to 13h, and Friday 11h to 13h. Further details will be discussed in the first lecture.
 
Final exam
Requirement for participating in the exam and further details will be discussed during the lecture. Specific dates and times will be announced in December.
 
Lecture content
    •    Basic concepts of numerical simulations, continuous and discrete simulations
    •    Discretization of ordinary differential equations, integration schemes of different order 
    •    N-body problems 
    •    Discretization of partial differential equations
    •    Finite element and finite volume methods
    •    Lattice methods 
    •    Adaptive mesh refinement and multi-grid methods
    •    Matrix solvers and FFT methods
    •    Monte Carlo methods, Markov chains, applications in statistical physics 
 
Credit points and workload
The workload of this master core course is 240 hours, corresponding to 8 credit points.
 
Script
Lecture notes will be provided from this webpage as the lecture progresses. It is based on the script of the past semesters.