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Introduction
Welcome to the home page for section 401 of MA 214.
This course is required to cover the following topics:
CS 689-001 Special Topics in Numerical Computing: Computational
Modeling
University of Kentucky Call Number 06110
(Fall, 2000).
This is an advanced seminar level course. The content and
form of the class will be
determined by the instructor and posted on the class web page and online
syllabus.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor or
two 500 level CS courses.
Please see the syllabus
for more details. If you are taking the course and have not filled out the
survey, please do so now and bring it to class.
Course Content
This course will take an in depth study into several physical problems which are relevant today (and in the
foreseeable future). These may include
- Industrial Just in Time Scheduling of Manufactured Goods
- Connection Acceptance Control in Communications Networks
- Robot Arm Control
- Environmental Impact of Road Dust Particles
- Ocean modeling (including coastal water flow and water flow in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans)
- Flames (including simple flames found in jet engines, candles, heat pumps, and burning buildings or forests)
This will be a self contained course assuming that a student has completed CS
537. Any numerical methods needed that were not covered in CS 537 will be given in lectures during the course.
Projects will be created for the entire class to work on. Models will be
developed describing mathematically the process to be simulated numerically.
Computer codes will be developed and tested. Some of the problems are developed describing mathematically the process to be simulated numerically.
Computer codes will be developed and tested. Some of the problems are suitable for either a single fast PC, a cluster of PC's, or the HP N class
supercomputer ncx.uky.edu in McVey Hall. All three environments will be available.
Project 1 will be to reproduce the results in the paper on
road dust and to extend the model to cover some of the possibilities, given more
time than the authors had.
Project 2 is to modify the vorticity-velocity formulation
of Navier-Stokes for a simple flame sheet. Papers on the topic include one
from SIAM News and one of their books and another
from the journal Parallel Algorithms and Applications. Actual code (in a gzipped
tar file) can be downloaded from the class web site.
Calendar
This section will change weekly. Please consult this
web page often.
| Date |
Special |
Topic's |
| 8/24 |
Survey |
Initialization of class structures |
| 8/29 |
McVey 327 |
Road dust presentation |
| 8/31 |
Project 1 discussed |
Finish dust presentation, discuss project 1 |
| 9/5 |
3:00 |
Discuss progress on project 1 |
| 9/19 |
- |
Reports on project 1, start project 2 |
| 9/21 |
2:30 |
Discuss organization of flame sheet code |
| 