This repository holds additional course material to teach computational geophysics.
An introduction to finite-difference, pseudo-spectral, finite-element, and spectral-element methods will be presented and applied to basic geophysical problems including heat flow and wave propagation.
The course offers hands-on lab experience in numerically solving partial differential equations relevant to geophysics.
- Wed/Thu, 8:30 - 10:00 KAUST time
- in-person teaching, KAUST Bld 9 room 2120
- KAUST building 1, office #0146
- daniel.peter@kaust.edu.sa
The material in this repository is used for teaching purposes. You may reuse it freely to produce, share and build on knowledge - education is open to all.
During the pandemic year 2020, we recorded the online classes. They are provided below as youtube videos. The video lectures are:
| Lecture | youtube video |
|---|---|
| welcome |  |
| 1 - conservation of mass |  |
| 2 - conservation of linear momentum |  |
| 3 - conservation of energy |  |
| 4 - conservation of angular momentum |  |
| 5 - stability analysis |  |
| 6 - higher order finite-differences |  |
| 7 - pseudo-spectral method |  |
| 8 - finite-element method - part 1 |  |
| 9 - finite-element method - part 2 |  |
| 10 - finite-element method - part 3 |  |
| 11 - finite-element method - heat transfer |  |
| 12 - spectral-element method - part 1 |  |
| 13 - spectral-element method - part 2 |  |
| 14 - spectral-element method - homework |  |
| 15 - spectral-element method - homework wave equation |  |
| 16 - spectral-element method - Newmark time scheme |  |
| 17 - class - summary and discussion |  |
| 18 - finite-volume method - part 1 |  |
| 19 - finite-volume method - part 2 |  |
| 20 - finite-volume method - wave equation |  |
| 21 - finite-volume method - wave equation 2 |  |
that's all. the videos are quite embarrassing, i'm speaking very slowly and keep saying "basically" :) but I hope you find some interesting bits and pieces.