Physics 697 Special Topics in Applied Physics: Scientific Computation and Visualization

Tomas Materdey

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-5:45pm in S-3-126

Week 1 & 2

-Introduction to numerical simulations

-Maxwells Equation: Finite-Difference in the time-domain

-Introduction to Fortran

Example Program FDTD2D

Week 3 & 4:

Project 1: Waveguides and couplings: FD-TD

Fortran 77 Standard

Week 5 & 6:

Project 2: Molecular interactions: Molecular Dynamics

Example Program MolDyn

Week 7 & 8:

Project 3: Time-Frequency Speech Processing: Wavelets/Wigner Transform

Speech Analysis Tutorial

Midterm: fdtd2d code input file

Week 9 & 10:

Project 4: DFT/FFT and Solutions of Differential Equations

Week 11-14:

Numerical Projects in Biology/Chemistry/Phyiscs/Engineering