FMN091 / NUMN14 - Finite Volume Methods

Content: Hyperbolic conservation laws, basic properties. Numerical methods, accuracy and stability.  Simulations using CLAWPACK.

Goal: To understand the couppling of physical properties of conservation laws and the construction of Finite Volume Methods.

Schedule: t.b.a.

Notes: Conservation Laws and Finite Volume Methods

Assignments: Set 1 / Set 2 / Set 3

Literature: 
1. Randall LeVeque: Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems ISBN 0-521-00924-3, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.
2. Helge Holden and Nils Henrik Risebro: Front Tracking for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Springer, New York, 2002.
3. Heinz-Otto Kreiss and Jens Lorenz: Initial-Boundary Value Problems and the Navier-Stokes Equations, SIAM, 2004.