Partial Differential Equations in Advanced Undergraduate Physics

高等本科物理中的偏微分方程

• 批准号: 9350667
• 负责人: David Cook
• 金额: $ 4.88万
• 依托单位: LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-06-15 至 1995-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9350667&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Partial; Differential; Equations; Advanced; Undergraduate

For several years, many of the intermediate courses for undergraduate physics majors at Lawrence University have included components that nurture skills to use sophisticated computational resources creatively and independently. In this project we are take thing the next natural step by adding computational components to two advanced courses (Mathematical Methods of Physics and Advanced Electromagnetic Theory), thereby broadening the spectrum of feasible senior-level independent studies and introducing tools that become daily more crucial to the practicing scientist and engineer. Specifically, we are incorporating numerical treatment of 2D and 3D problems in wave propagation, fluid dynamics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetic theory. To support this curricular development, we have added two 3D graphics workstations and a color printer to our existing local area network. This hardware allows fast, thorough, graphical examination of large data files resulting from numerical simulations carried out locally or, more often, remotely via network access to one of the national supercomputer centers.

几年来，劳伦斯大学本科生专业的许多中级课程包括培养技能以创造性地独立地使用复杂计算资源的组成部分。 在这个项目中，我们将采取了下一个自然步骤，将计算组件添加到两个高级课程（数学物理学和先进的电磁理论）中，从而扩大了可行的高级独立研究的范围，并引入了每天对实践科学家和工程师每天变得更加重要的工具。 具体而言，我们正在将2D和3D问题的数值处理在波传播，流体动力学，弹性，量子力学和电磁理论中。 为了支持这一课程开发，我们在现有的局域网中添加了两个3D图形工作站和一个颜色打印机。 该硬件可以快速，透彻，图形检查对当地或经常通过网络访问到国家超级计算机中心之一进行远程进行的数值模拟产生的大型数据文件。