Particle Methods

LECTURES AND EXERCISES WILL BE IN PRESENCE FOR THE WHOLE SEMESTER, BUT SUPPORTED WITH ONLINE VIDEO RECORDINGS

• Link to the the schedule and videos for this semester in OPAL  https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/33993129987

Grade scale:

All exams are graded in absolute terms w.r.t. the following pre-defined grade scale that remains constant over the years:

• The top grade of 1.0 is reached with 80% of the maximum possible points
• Half of that, i.e., 40% of the maximum possible points, are required to pass
• Below 40%, or no-show, is a fail.

Between the top grade and the passing threshold, the grading scale is linear. In the end, grades are rounded to the nearest allowed grade according to the exam regulations: 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, 2.0, 2.3, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 5.0. The grades 0.7, 4.3, and 4.7 are not allowed. Any grade above 4.1 is a fail (see exam regulations). The maximum number of points that can be reached in the exam is given by the number of minutes the exam lasts (i.e., a 90 minute exam yields maximum 90 points). Points are distributed amongst the exam questions to reflect the number of minutes a good student would need to solve the problem. This provides some guidance for your time management in the exam. In order to reduce the risk of correction mistakes, all exams are checked by at least two independent, qualified assessors (typically professors or teaches with officially conferred examination rights). The exam review session (see below) is for you to come look at your exam paper and report correction mistakes you found.

Registration to the exam

• For students of the Master program Computational Modeling and Simulation: via CampusNet SELMA

• For students of other degree programs: via your respective examination office

Exam Review 

You can come and look at your exam solutions and raise any concern that you might have with respect to the grading, IN PERSON. You can come and look at your exam solutions, and ask questions about its correction and the answers given during these exam review times. In order to accommodate for everyone's schedule, we offer two exam review dates. The details of this will be updated on the OPAL page of the course

IMPORTANT: All students attending an exam review must fill in and sign the exam review form they are going to receive during the review. Undocumented exam reviews are not permitted. Any transcripts, copies or photographs of examinations, examination protocols or other written examination papers made by the student in the course of this inspection or otherwise made available to the student are only for the purpose of personal use and to protect personal interests. Distribution of the same via the Internet or other media is not permitted.

• Lecture 1 - Administration and Introduction: what is modeling and simulation? What are particle methods?
• Lecture 2 - Efficient data structures for short-range interactions: cell lists and Verlet lists
• Lecture 3 - Time stepping algorithms: explicit and implicit
• Lecture 4 - Error and stability of time stepping
• Lecture 5 - Particle methods for item-based models with stochastic dynamics; examples: population dynamics and chemical reactions
• Lecture 6 - Particle methods for item-based models with deterministic dynamics; example: granular flows and molecular dynamics
• Lecture 7 - Discretizing differential operators on particles: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics
• Lecture 8 - Discretizing differential operators on particles: Particle Strength Exchange
• Lecture 9 - DC-PSE as a unifying framework for field-based particle simulations
• Lecture 10 - Eulerian and Lagrangian simulations of field-based models
• Lecture 11 - Hybrid particle-mesh methods and particle-mesh interpolation