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Lecture Notes

These lectures are presented in the frame of the physics department, the interdisciplinary Curriculum Computational Science and Engineering of ETH Zürich, and the Faculty of Science, University of Zürich. Emphasize is given to two points. First, the students should obtain a good insight into the various physical processes governing complex astrophysical systems. They should learn how to collect the single pieces and how to bring them together to build a computable model of a complex system. The students should then improve their computational skills. This is the intention of the students projects held parallel to the lectures. The students work in small groups on different computational projects for one semester. They present their results at the end of the semester in a student seminar. Some of the student projects are presented on the web (see the semester pages).

Scripts
Detailled scripts (in german) for two lectures have been worked out. These scripts can be copied and used for tutorials. They are subject to the copyright by the authors and shall not be printed, reproduced, or distributed on a commercial basis without the permission of the authors.


Rolf Walder From the Solar Wind to the Accretion into a Black Hole:
Physics and Numerical Simulation of Astrophysical Fluid Flows
Vom Sonnenwind zur Akkretion in ein schwarzes Loch:
Physik und numerische Simulation astrophysikalischer Strömungen (217 pages, 120 figures, 14 tables, in german)
gzipped postscript file (16.0Mb).
(gzipped pages 1-70 (5.0Mb), pages 71-140 (3.6Mb), pages 141-217 (7.5Mb) )



Rolf Walder (including chapters by Hansruedi Schild) Modeling of Astrophysical Nebuale:
Physics and Numerical Simulation
Modellierung astrophysikalischer Nebel:
Physik und numerische Simulation (245 pages, 120 figures, 13 tables, in german)
gzipped postscript file (12.0Mb).


Rolf Walder Notes on the numerics and the simulation
of astrophysical fluid flows
Notizen zur Numerik und zur Simulation
astrophysikalischer Strömungen
(46 pages, in german)
gzipp6d postscript file (0.4Mb).


Lectures at the International numerical atelier:
 The A-MAZE project:
Towards the simulations of complex astrophysical objects
(Le projet A-MAZE: Vers la simulation d'objets astrophysiques complexes)

View or download lectures


Lecture at the école doctorale Astronomie et Astrophysique d'Ile de France
From the quations to videos and data-analysis -
the case of turbulence in stellar winds
(Des équations au video et l'analyse des données -
le cas de la turbulence dans les vents stellaires)

 Lecture in html postscript pdf


For contacts and comments:
walder@astro.phys.ethz.ch Last Update: June 29, 2000.