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Crash Course on Numerical Astrophysics

This presentation is a part of "Online Crash Course on Numerical Astrophysics" which was hosted by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, from July 27 to July 31, 2020.

NA2020 Online Workshop

Manuals

codes

  • Pluto. Please note that we found a typo in the official code v. 4.3. that causes problem for it to work with python 3.x. We have prepared a fix that solves this issue. You can download this fixed version from here.
  • pyro code.

Resources

The YouTube playlist of video lectures is available here.

Prof. Bhargav Vaidya from Indian Institute of Technology (Indore, India) talks about Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics.

Slides Video Topic
Lecture 1 Lecture 1 Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics pt.I
Lecture 2 Lecture 2 Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics pt.II
Lecture 3 Lecture 3 PLUTO code Essentials
Lecture 4 Lecture 4 A Practical Introduction to the PLUTO Code

Prof. Wilhelm Kley from Institut für Astronomie & Astrophysik & Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, University of Tübingen, Germany, talks about Numerical Hydrodynamics (Basics & Discretisation). All materials provided by Prof. Kley, including a basic introduction to numerical hydrodynamics, a project focused on linear advection, and some background on programming languages are available here.

  1. Basics & Discretisation
  2. Discretisation
  3. Waves & Diffusion

Prof. Hanawafrom Chiba University, Japan, talks about "Self-gravity in hydrodynamical simulations. notes of the workshop ( which contains the exact analytical solution of the homework). Also, please check FFTE: A Fast Fourier Transform Package which is introduced by Prof. Hanawa and includes a package to compute Discrete Fourier Transform.

  1. Preliminary
  2. Solve Poisson & Hydrodynamical eq.
  3. Discussing Homework

Dr. Christoph Schäfer from University of Tübingen, Germany, talks about N-Body Modelling Direct N-Body, slides and exercises, plus an introduction to N-Body Simulations with REBOUND, could be found here.

  1. N-Body Modelling pt.I
  2. N-Body Modelling pt.II
  3. REBOUND
  4. Hands-on exercises

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