Physics 387N
Course Material


The course will focus on the following paper:

Time-Symmetric ADI and Causal Reconnection: Stable Numerical Techniques for Hyperbolic Systems on Moving Grids
Miguel Alcubierre, Bernard F. Schutz
J. Comp. Phys. 112, 44-77, (1994).

The following are related papers that might be of interest:

The Fully Averaged Implicit Scheme.
Miguel Alcubierre
Submitted to J. Comp. Phys., (1994).

Modelling Moving Black Holes
Gabrielle Allen, Miguel Alcubierre, Simon Farrar, Bernard F. Schutz
and Lee Ashton Wild
to appear in Proceedings of Marcel Grossman 7 Conference (1994).

Slides from a talk given by S. Klasky
R. Correll, M. Huq, S. Klasky and R. Matzner. University of Pittsburgh, December 1995


Numerical Analysis texts:

The Finite Difference Method in Partial Differential Equations.
D.F.Griffiths and A.R.Mitchell,
John Wiley and Sons (1980)

Numerical Recipies in Fortran: The Art of Scientific Computing.
W.H.Press, S.A.Teukolsky, W.T.Vetterling and B.P.Flannery, 2nd ed.,
Cambridge Univ. Press (1992)