Coding Solvers for Fluids

Coding Solvers for Fluids#

CCA Fluid Dynamics Summer School 2023#

Michael Zingale

This is a collection of notebooks on writing a simple finite-volume solver for compressible hydrodynamics. The goal is to understand the basic structure of a hydrodynamics code. We’ll write solvers for:

  • linear advection

  • compressible Euler equations

The methods we will discuss are at the core of many community astrophysics simulation codes.

Tip

Detailed derivations of the methods described here can be found in my LaTeX notes Introduction to Computational Astrophysical Hydrodynamics