TITLE:

FINITE-VOLUME METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (No. 84)

DATE:

Friday, October 14th, 2005

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Phillip Colella, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ABSTRACT:

Finite volume methods are natural discretizations of partial
differential operators expresses as conservation laws, i.e.
as the divergence of a vector field of “fluxes”. In this talk, we will
discuss why numerical methods based on finite-volume
discretizations are desirable, and describe various aspects of the
design space for such methods, including adaptive mesh
refinement, embedded boundary methods for complex geometries, and
high-order methods.

HOST:

Jose Castillo

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