Fluid Dynamics Summer School

Jul 31, 2023, 9:00 AM → Aug 11, 2023, 5:00 PM America/New_York

5th Floor Classroom/5-Flatiron Institute (162 5th Avenue)

Phil Armitage, Yan-Fei Jiang

The Flatiron Computational Fluid Dynamics for Astrophysics summer school will introduce students to the breadth of numerical methods needed to model the range of physical processes encountered in astrophysics. Through lectures and hands-on tutorials, the school will aim to cover different numerical techniques (finite volume, spectral, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, Moving Mesh, high-order), different physical processes including MHD and radiation transfer, and different architectures (CPU and GPU computing). The different methods will be illustrated with scientific examples across fields, including star and galaxy formation, the ISM, and high energy astrophysics.

 

Students will be expected to learn at least one of the codes and run some simple simulations by the end of this program.

 

The sign-up sheet for local students is now closed. All lecture recordings will be available upon request. Please complete this form to receive the recorded lectures via email. 

 

Lecturers:

7/31/2023- Romain Teyssier, Chris White, Drummond Fielding

8/1/2023- Andrew Giuliani, Stephanie Tonnesen, David Velasco

8/2/2023- Jim Stone, David Velasco, Minghao Guo

8/3/2023- Daniel Price, Ulrich Steinwandel, Farzana Meru

8/4/2023- Wladimir Lyra, Linn Eriksson, Jiayin Dong (DJ)

8/7/2023- Mike Zingale

8/8/2023- Keaton Burns, Daniel Lecoanet

8/9/2023- Phil Chang, Andrew MacFadyen, Shy Genel

8/10/2023- Shane Davis, Kaze Wong,Yan-Fei Jiang

8/11/2023- Daniel Price, Ulrich Steinwandel, Phil Armitage

 

Topics: 

Date	Topics	Afternoon tutorial topic
7/31/2023	Finite volume methods	Introduction to the Flatiron cluster by Lehman Garrison + flash talks from participants
8/1/2023	High order / discontinuous Galerkin schemes	Athena++
8/2/2023	GPU hydrodynamics codes	GPU hydropdynamics
8/3/2023	Smooth particle hydrodynamics	SPH / Phantom code
8/4/2023	Finite difference methods	Pencil code
8/7/2023	Coding solvers for fluids	experimenting with pyro
8/8/2023	Spectral methods	Dedalus
8/9/2023	Moving mesh	MANGA code
8/10/2023	Radiation Monte Carlo, visualization	Blender tutorial
8/11/2023	MHD	MHD methods