Hydrodynamics
WS 2022/2023

This Course will introduce the basic concepts of hydrodynamics and how they are applied to astrophysical simulations.

Lectures

Suggested Literature

Lecture Plan

Time and Location for WS 2022/23 will be Mondays, 10–12, USM Lecture hall.

Tutorials

In this class you will be required to write small computer programs to setup and analyze various, interesting hydrodynamical flows. The simulations itself will be done with a given hydrodynamics code and you will be given access to central computers to perform the simulations and the analysis of them. This will require some effort and lots of experimentation from your side. But keep in mind that programming is not the main aspect of these tutorials — understanding physics of the different experiments is.

Each of the tutorials will involve a short, general discussion about some aspects of the current exercise set and the related physical and numerical issues where you are expected to have prepared yourself by answering some key questions in forehand. During the tutorials you will work on setting up the test problems and performing the hydrodynamical simulations.

You can use the same infrastructure than used for the Astrophysical Labs, so please follow the instructions and setup your client to connect to our machines, where all needed software will be installed. In case you want to directly work on your laptop, the minimum on software you need is:

For the Tutorials we will pair you up into groups (depending on the participation, 2 or 3 students per group) and when possible, synchronized with the grouping for the astrophysical praktikum. Each group will be assigned to one computing resource and will submit one Hausarbeit at the end (see below).

Tutorial schedule

Time and Location for WS 2022/23 will be Mondays, 16–18, USM Lecture hall.

Grading

Grading will be based on the Hausarbeit submitted by each group, with some Bonus for participating actively in the tutorials. The format rules for the Hausarbeit will be:

The content for the one page normal report for T1–T12 should be to briefly explain the experiment and your finding (including figures). Do not repeat what is written on the tutorial web pages but show with your own words that you have understood the experiment. This part you do together and only once for each group.

Everyone selects one of the experiments and tries to do something which goes beyond what we discussed/did in the tutorials. Write up to 2 extra pages describing what you did, your findings and why this is interesting. Mark these two pages with your name within the Hausarbeit.

Hand in your Hausarbeit no later than March 12, 2023 (submit to hydro@usm.uni-muenchen
lmu
.de
).