2021 Project Description
Go back to the list of available projectsComputational Methods, Benchmarking and Code Development for Astrophysical Fluids
Keywords:CHARMS
CompAS
Computational fluid dynamics
Numerical Methods
Supervisors
Hsien Shang
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Task Description and Goals
We develop hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic codes for astrophysical problems in CompAS and CHARMS groups. For the 2021 Summer Student Program, we invite students to explore development and validation of high-order conservative finite difference methods.
- The students will be given a short introduction about the state-of-art of a family of high order finite difference schemes.
- We'll provide a set of codes and help the the students to get familiar with the structure and setup of these solvers.
- The students will have hands-on experiences in testing accuracy and performance of numerical methods for HD-MHD problems.
We look for highly-motivated students who have strong interests in numerical methods, code development techniques, and their potential applications.
Required Background
These are desirable but not required backgrounds:
- Good knowledge of any of these 3 programming language : Python, Fortran, C
- English communication, reading and writing
- Parallel programming, and other techniques
- College-level applied mathematics
- Python, Matlab, or interactive plotting tools