Course details

Course schedule

Summer Semester 2021

• Class sessions

  • Wednesdays at 14:00 CET (21.04.2021 - 07.07.2021), zoom link available from instructors

• Semester breaks

  • no scheduled breaks so far

Instructors

Prof. Lars Ruepke

• Email: lruepke@geomar.de

• Institute webpage

Dr. Zhikui Guo

• Email: zguo@geomar.de

Course website

• Public site : https://lruepke.github.io/FEM_lecture/

• University site: https://lms.uni-kiel.de/url/RepositoryEntry/4012113942

Further readings

There are many good online resources on numerical modeling in marine geosciences:

• The CIG website https://geodynamics.org

• Website of the community code ASPECT https://aspect.geodynamics.org

• Marc Spiegelmann’s script on numerical methods https://earth.usc.edu/~becker/teaching/557/reading/spiegelman_mmm.pdf

There are also a number of books that are really helpful:

• Guy Simpson’s book on FE with Matlab [Simpson, 2017]

• Hughes classic book on FEM [Hughes, 2000]

• Reddy and Gartling’s book [Reddy & Gartling, 2010]

• Grandin’s book on FEM [Grandin, 1991]

Credits

• Some of the material on finite differences are based on material that Boris Kaus initially developed for a modeling workshop at Oslo University.

• Special thanks also to Ria Fischer, who helped with a previous version of this lecture.

• Thanks also to Prof. Keith A. Woodbury of The University of Alabama for letting us use his lecture notes on Weighted Residuals.