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Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
FYS.421

Computational Physics 2, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)
Course code
FYS.421
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Ilkka Kylänpää
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Physics Studies 100 %

Core content

  • Introduction to many-body methodology in computational physics
  • Data visualization and analysis
  • Numerical calculus and linear algebra
  • Numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations

Complementary knowledge

  • Working with supercomputers and superclusters
  • Perceptually uniform colormaps
  • Multi-dimensional calculus
  • Relation to computational physics
  • Basics in related numerical framework

Specialist knowledge

  • Details in many-body simulation techniques
  • Meaningful publication-quality figures 
  • How to select and implement some key algorithms
  • Usage, implementation and development of related codes
Learning outcomes
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Student's workload for the course is about 120 hours. Voluntary lectures 2h/week, exercise sessions 2h/week, and computer laboratory 4h/week. Weekly exercise problems are mostly small coding exercises. These exercises will prepare the student for the coding project work that will be returned at the end of the course.

Participation in teaching

21.10.2024 08.12.2024
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)