School on Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics | (smr 1865) (15-26 October 2007)

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Details for INSTRUCTORS: SILVANO MASSAGLIA & ANDREA MIGNONE

Affiliation	University of Torino, Italy
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Numerical simulations in astrophysics: the PLUTO code

Basic numerical discretization method: (1) differentiation; (2) integration; (3) interpolation

Theory of linear advection equation: (1) discretization, stability, Upwind method, characteristics; (2) practice session with PLUTO code

Theory of linear hyperbolic systems: (1) Riemann problem; (2) characteristic decomposition

Nonlinear scalar equation: (1) Burger's equation; (2) shocks and rarefactions

Euler equations: (1) characteristics, Riemann problem; (2) exact and approximate solution; (3) practice session (Sod shock tube) with PLUTO; (4) extension to multidimension; (5) practice session (2-D) with PLUTO

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Directors: D. Bhattacharya, S. Massaglia, A. Rogava, S. Sridhar and K. Subramanian

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