Lectures & Seminars

Find here links to pdfs of transperencies and videos of all lectures of the school (click on the name to obtain a list).

• Dinshaw Balsara
• Frédéric Bournaud
• Benoît Commerçon
• Jean Favre
• Doris Folini
• Charles Gammie
• Giovanni Lapenta
• Émmanuel Quéméner

Dinshaw Balsara

Lecture 1 : Overview of PDEs in Computational Astrophysics : 

Pdf

Movie 1

Lecture 2 : Finite Difference Approximations

Pdf            : Entire Lecture 

Movie 2a  : Finite Difference Approximations - Part 1     

Movie 2b  : Finite Difference Approximations - Part 2

Lecture 2a : Finite Difference Approximations; Parabolic Supplement

Pdf

Lecture 3 : Scalar Advection, Linear Hyperbolic PDEs

Pdf           : Entire Lecture

Movie 3a : Scalar Advection

Movie 3b : Linear Hyperbolic PDEs - Part 1

Movie 3c : Linear Hyperbolic PDEs - Part 2

Lecture 4 : Non-Linear Scalar Conservation Laws

Pdf           : Entire Lecture

Movie 4a  : Non-Linear Scalar Conservation Laws - Part 1

Movie 4b  : Non-Linear Scalar Conservation Laws - Part 2

Lecture 5 : Riemann solvers for Hydro and MHD

Pdf           : Entire Lecture

Movie 5a  : Linearized Riemann Solvers for Hydro

Movie 5b  : HLL, HLLC, HLLI

Movie 5c  : MHD Case, HLLD, HLLI

Lecture 6 : Multi-D schemes for Conservation Laws

Pdf           : Entire Lecture

Movie 6a : Spatial Reconstruction

Movie 6b : Runge-Kutta & Predictor-corrector Timestepping

Movie 6c : ADER Timestepping

Lecture 7 : Multi-D schemes for MHD, Div-free reconstruction and MuSIC Riemann solvers

Pdf            : Entire Lecture

Movie 7a  : Divergence Free Reconstruction

Movie 7b  : Multi-D Riemann Solver, Part 1

Movie 7c  : Multi-D Riemann Solver, Part 2

Codes and Exercises (gzipped tar-files)

Finite_Difference_Approximation

Linear_Hyperbolic_Systems

Nonlinear_Scalar_Hyperbolic_Equations

Euler_MHD_Riemann_Problems_1D

RIEMANN_code_2ndOrder_Distribution

RIEMANN_code_HighOrder_Distribution

Frédéric Bournaud

All 4 Lectures: Pdf

Lecture 1 : Movie 1a    Movie 1b 

Lecture 2: Movie 2a    Movie 2b

Lecture 3 : Movie 3a_I    Movie 3a_II    Movie 3b    

Lecture 4 : Movie 4

Benoît Commerçon

Lecture 1 : Radiation Hydrodynamics on grids.       Pdf      Movie 1a      Movie 1b  

Lecture 2 : Starformation : Protostellar Collapse.    Pdf      Movie 2a      Movie 2b

Jean Favre

Lecture 1 : Grid data visualization with VisIt :            Pdf      Movie 1

Lecture 2 : SPH data visualization with ParaView : Pdf       Movie 2a     Movie 2b

Doris Folini

Lecture 1+2 : Turbulence in computational astrophysics : Pdf 

Videos of the lectures:

Lecture 1a  

Lecture 1b 

Lecture 2a 

Lecture 2b

Charles Gammie

All lectures : Pdf

Movie 1a        Movie 1b
Movie 2a        Movie 2b
Movie 3a_I     Movie 3a_II (No sound!)    Movie 3b_I  (No sound!)     Movie 3b_II
Movie 4a        Movie 4b

Giovanni Lapenta

Lecture 1 pdf     Movie 1a     Movie 1b

Lecture 2 pdf     Movie 2a     Movie 2b

Lecture 3 pdf     Movie 3a     Movie 3b

Émmanuel Quéméner

Lecture 1 : Parallelism.  Pdf      Movie 1     

Lecture 2 : GPU.             Pdf      Movie 2a     Movie 2b