Complex Computer Simulations, Numerical Artifacts, and Numerical Phenomena

Visualizing Time-Varying Phenomena In Numerical Simulations Of Unsteady Flows

Streamlines, contour lines, vector plots, and volume slices (cutting planes) are commonly used for flow visualization. These techniques are sometimes referred to as instantaneous flow visualization techniques because calculations are based on an instant of the flow field in time. Although instantaneous flow visualization techniques are effective for depicting phenomena in steady flows, they som...

TOkamaks and NUmerical Simulations

Model and Numerical Simulations

We study numerically the spatial properties of relaxation clusters in a two dimensional sandpile automaton with dynamic rules depending stochastically on a parameter p, which models the eeects of static friction. In the limiting cases p = 1 and p = 0 the model reduces to the critical height model and critical slope model, respectively. At p = p c , a continuous phase transition occurs to the st...

TOkamaks and NUmerical Simulations

Semiconvection: numerical simulations

A grid of numerical simulations of double-diffusive convection is presented for the astrophysical case where viscosity (Prandtl number Pr) and solute diffusivity (Lewis number Le) are much smaller than the thermal diffusivity. As in laboratory and geophysical cases convection takes place in a layered form. The proper translation between subsonic flows in a stellar interior and an incompressible...