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.

多年来，劳伦斯大学物理专业本科生的许多中级课程都包含培养创造性和独立地使用复杂计算资源的技能的内容。 在这个项目中，我们将采取下一个自然步骤，在两门高级课程（物理的数学方法和高级电磁理论）中添加计算组件，从而拓宽了可行的高级独立研究的范围，并引入了日益重要的工具。执业科学家和工程师。 具体来说，我们正在将波传播、流体动力学、弹性、量子力学和电磁理论中的 2D 和 3D 问题的数值处理结合起来。 为了支持该课程的开发，我们在现有的局域网中添加了两台 3D 图形工作站和一台彩色打印机。 该硬件可以对本地进行的数值模拟产生的大型数据文件进行快速、彻底的图形检查，或者更常见的是，通过网络访问国家超级计算机中心之一进行远程模拟。