A survey of computational physics: introductory computational science

Computational physics is a rapidly growing subfield of computational science,in large part because computers can solve previously intractable problems or simulate natural processes that do not have analytic solutions. The next step beyond Landau's "First Course in Scientific Computing" and a follow-up to Landau and Paez's "Computational Physics," this text presents a broad survey of key topics in computational physics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, including new discussions of visualization tools, wavelet analysis, molecular dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics. By treating science, applied mathematics, and computer science together, the book reveals how this knowledge base can be applied to a wider range of real-world problems thancomputational physics texts normally address.

• ISBN: 978-0-691-13137-5
• Editorial: Princeton University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 658
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés