IGERT Brochure

Past Events:

March 4th,2009

IGERT Monthly Students Meeting
351 Johnston Hall
11:00 am

March 18th, 2009
 "Large Scale Computation Using LONI & TEZPUR" Speaker: Mr. Wes Even
(IGERT PhD Student)
2520 Patrick F. Taylor Hall
11am.

April 1st, 2009
 "GPU Programming and
Performance"
Speaker: Mr. Kevin Tubbs
(IGERT PhD Student)
2520 Patrick F. Taylor Hall 11:00 am

April 15th, 2009
 "Visualization Tools, VISIT and VISH and their Capabilities vs. Other Tools Available"
Speaker: Mr. Farid Harhad
(IGERT PhD Student)
3515 Patrick F. Taylor Hall
11:00 am

April 28th, 2009
"Compensation of Long
Input Delays for Unstable
Nonlinear and PDE Systems"
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Miroslav Krstic
338 Johnston Hall
3:00 pm

Curriculum::Courses

Introductory, Cross-Disciplinary Courses:

• ME 4813 / Honors 4813
  
  Description: An introduction to fluid dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The first half of the course will emphasize how the principal concepts that underpin our understanding of fluid flows apply to a wide range of physical scales; the second half of the course will take the form of four separate, discipline-specific modules. Physical concepts initially will be presented without mathematics, using examples drawn from various disciplines. Then, the physical concepts will be expressed in mathematical terms to make them tangible for the solution of numerous problems. Example problems initially will be introduced on the simplest of levels and will be chosen so that they can be expanded upon and brought to a higher level (in terms of both formulation and solution method) during the second half of the course. The focus will be on problems with analytical or semi-analytical solutions, but close coordination with XD-II will allow extension to numerical solutions.
  [For a more detailed syllabus, click here.]
  

• ME 4823 / Honors 4823
  
  Description: An introduction to computational methods that are employed across multiple disciplines to model complex fluid flows on a wide variety of scales. Topics to be covered include: Interpolation; numerical integration & differentiation; solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs). Techniques for solving PDEs of elliptic, parabolic, & hyperbolic form will be introduced with fluid-flow examples. Finite-difference (FDM), finite-volume (FVM), and finite-element (FEM) methods will be introduced along with computational frameworks that facilitate parallelization and access to GRID computing resources.
  [For a more detailed syllabus, click here.]