Computational Physics 2, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

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

Lectures (English)

21.10.2024 – 08.12.2024