MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



A World Without Meshes? Learn How to Code Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Alexandre Guion and Giancarlo Lenci, Graduate Students

Jan/21 Tue 10:30AM-12:00PM 1-273
Jan/22 Wed 10:30AM-12:00PM 1-273
Jan/23 Thu 10:30AM-12:00PM 1-273
Jan/24 Fri 10:30AM-12:00PM 1-273

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: General programming skills

Are you interested in learning more about meshless approaches for simulating flows? Do you want to build your own code and participate in fun challenges?  Are you interested in discovering hands-on how smoothed-particle hydrodynamics models work, and which applications they are used for?  

Please join us in this new short course, which starts with an introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and meshless approaches, including key governing equations and methodologies.  Afterwards, an implementation of smoothed-particle hydrodynamics to solve flow fields is performed through hands-on coding sessions, with an emphasis on unsteady free-surface flows.  The course  ends with an application to a real-life case, and a final competition for fun between students. 

Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Alexandre Guion; Giancarlo Lenci, NW12-306; NW12-238, 617-417-5693;, aguion@mit.edu