Computational Physics at Oregon State University

Landau-NACSE Research Group
(see also CP Curriculum Development)

Welcome from the people in the Physics Department at Oregon State University associated with the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering NACSE. The alliance was part of the National Science Foundation's Metacenter Regional Alliance.

• Computational Physics tutorials illuminating both physics and computations.
  • Linear and Nonlinear Oscillations Tutorial
  • The Chaotic Pendulum in Phase Space with Java
  • Bilingual (+Universidad Antioquia, Medellin) Physics Applet Collection
  • Visualizing the Chaotic Pendulum (Java Applets)
  • Movies of Wavepacket-Wavepacket Quantum Scattering
  • Sounds of Physical Systems
  • HearData: Java Applet to sonify your data
  • Monte Carlo Techniques in Physics
  • Differential Equations and Oscillations
• Web-based instruction on computational tools for working scientists.
  • Coping with Unix, A Gentle Guide
  • Windows NT for Science, esp for Unix Users
  • VisualizingData
  • Using subroutine libraries
    • LAPACKwithout all of the pain
    • Using SLATEC in C
  • Getting Started With PVM: < Parallel Programming Without A Parallel Computer
  • Getting Started With MPI: Parallel Programming Without A Parallel Computer
• Fluid Flow with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics