Scientific and Technical Computing

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Department of Laser Physics and Photonics

Synopsis:

The students get familiar with methods of solving of computational problems in the scientific and technical practice, and with methods of their programming. The course is oriented mainly to programming in the Fortran language.

Requirements:

Basic computer skills

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Characteristics of scientific computation tasks

2.Software requirements

3.Fortran language, its history, philosophy and composition

4.syntax of line in a program

5.types of variables

6.basic commands

7.controlling input and output

8.subroutines, transfer of variables

9.policy of scientific software writing

10. individua problem solving

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Characteristics of scientific computation tasks

2.Software requirements

3.Fortran language, its history, philosophy and composition

4.syntax of line in a program

5.types of variables

6.basic commands

7.controlling input and output

8.subroutines, transfer of variables

9.policy of scientific software writing

10. individua problem solving

Study Objective:

Knowledge: Students will learn basic ruls for scientific and technical computing and basic knowledge about programming in Fortran language.

Skills: Student will be able to solve individually programming tasks forientific and technical applications

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] Fortran 90 Tutorial

Recommended references:

[1] http://kfe.fjfi.cvut.cz/~blazej/en/edu/index.html

[2] http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html

Media and tools:

[1] PC, personal or some in faculty labs

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Fyzikální inženýrství - Počítačová fyzika (elective course)
• Jaderná a částicová fyzika (elective course)
• Fyzikální inženýrství - Laserová technika a fotonika (elective course)
• Kvantové technologie (elective course)
• Physical Engineering - Computational physics (elective course)
• Quantum Technologies (elective course)
• Nuclear and Particle Physics (elective course)