Scientific Programming for Engineers


Practical information

• Every Thurday, Lectures from *10:15* to *12:00* and Exercises from *13:15* to *15:00*
• The room we will meet in is GR A3 32
• Lectures will also be given through zoom and recorded (https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61343133504)
• Videos published on a SwitchTube
• Piazza forum
• GIT repository
• VirtualBox for the class

Summary

The students will acquire a solid knowledge on the processes necessary to design, write and use scientific software. Software design techniques will be used to program a multi-usage particles code, aiming at providing the link between algorithmic/complexity, optimization and program designs. Content

• Object Oriented Paradigm
• C/C++ and Python programming (class, operator, template, design patterns, STL)
• Programming techniques, code factorization
• Pointers, memory management, data structures
• Linear system solving (Eigen library)
• C++/Python coupling (pybind)
• Post-treatment: Paraview, numpy/scipy, matplotlib

Classical problems

• series calculations
• solar system and many-body calculation
• sparse linear algebra.