Autumn School in Nonlinear Science 

08/10/2015, 08:30 — 09:30 — Abreu Faro Amphitheatre
Clint Dawson, UT Austin

Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws

1. Introduction to conservation laws, characteristics, shocks, entropy solutions.
2. Numerical methods for one dimensional scalar equations
3. Extension to systems of equations in one dimension, Riemann solvers.
4. Extensions to multiple dimensions.  Applications to the shallow water equations.