Escola de Outono em Ciência Não Linear 

09/10/2015, 09:30 — 10:30 — Anfiteatro Abreu Faro
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.