APMA 2580

Multiscale Computational Fluid Dynamics



Instructor:

Professor George Karniadakis
170 Hope Street, Room 312
Tel: 401 863-1217
Email: george_karniadakis@brown.edu
Web: http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/gk
Office Hours: Thursday, 3:00-5:00 p.m.



Textbooks:

  1. "Spectral/hp Element Methods for CFD",
    George Karniadakis & Spencer Sherwin
    (Oxford University Press, 2005 second edition)
  2. "Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI",
    George Karniadakis & Robert M. Kirby
    (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
  3. "Microflows & Nanoflows: Fundamentals and Simulation",
    1. George Karniadakis, Ali Beskok & Narayan Aluru (Springer, 2005)


Syllabus:

Book # 1: Chapters 1, 8, 9, 10
Book # 2: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Book # 3: Chapters 1, 2, 15, 16


Homework:

Computer Projects and final project


Programming:

C/C++ or Fortran and MPI for parallel computing assignments.


Other References:

  1. The C++ Programming Language (Third Edition),
    B. Stroustrup (Addison Wesley, 1997).
  2. Parallel Programming with MPI,
    P.S. Pacheco (Morgan Kaufmann, 1997)


Website:

http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/gk/AM258