2011 Interdisciplinary Summer School: Granular Flows

Computer Exercises II: Low-gravity Simulations

Derek C. Richardson, University of Maryland

Interested participants will gain hands-on experience with running the N-body gravity code pkdgrav. Participants will generate initial conditions, carry out simulations, and both analyze and visualize the results. The focus will be on granular dynamics simulations in arbitrary gravity. Participants will be free to explore various simulation outcomes and construct their own experiments. As time allows, short parallel runs will be carried out over multiple cores as a demonstration.