2.29 | Spring 2003 | Graduate

Numerical Marine Hydrodynamics (13.024)

Course Description

This course is an introduction to numerical methods: interpolation, differentiation, integration, and systems of linear equations. It covers the solution of differential equations by numerical integration, as well as partial differential equations of inviscid hydrodynamics: finite difference methods, boundary integral …

This course is an introduction to numerical methods: interpolation, differentiation, integration, and systems of linear equations. It covers the solution of differential equations by numerical integration, as well as partial differential equations of inviscid hydrodynamics: finite difference methods, boundary integral equation panel methods. Also addressed are introductory numerical lifting surface computations, fast Fourier transforms, the numerical representation of deterministic and random sea waves, as well as integral boundary layer equations and numerical solutions.

This course was originally offered in Course 13 (Department of Ocean Engineering) as 13.024. In 2005, ocean engineering subjects became part of Course 2 (Department of Mechanical Engineering), and this course was renumbered 2.29.

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An ASCI three-dimensional modeling of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability illustrated using numerical methods and ASCI three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling. (Image courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.)