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Simulation and modeling of natural processes

Name: Simulation and modeling of natural processes
Rating: 8.5 (274 reviews)

This course gives you an introduction to modeling methods and simulation tools for a wide range of natural phenomena. The different methodologies that will b...

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(274 reviews)

28,882 students

Created by

Bastien Chopard

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Video Score: 9.4 / 10

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Description

This course gives you an introduction to modeling methods and simulation tools for a wide range of natural phenomena. The different methodologies that will be presented here can be applied to very wide range of topics such as fluid motion, stellar dynamics, population evolution, … This course does not intend to go deeply into any numerical method or process and does not provide any recipe for the resolution of a particular problem. It is rather a basic guideline towards different methodologies that can be applied to solve any kind of problem and help you pick the one best suited for you.

The assignments of this course will be made as practical as possible in order to allow you to actually create from scratch short programs that will solve simple problems. Although programming will be used extensively in this course we do not require any advanced programming experience in order to complete it.

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Who is the instructor? Is Bastien Chopard a SCAM or a TRUSTED instructor?

Bastien Chopard has created 1 courses that got 61 reviews which are generally positive. Bastien Chopard has taught 28882 students and received a 4.06 average review out of 61 reviews. Depending on the information available, Bastien Chopard is a TRUSTED instructor.

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Bastien Chopard

Computer Science

University of Geneva

Bastien Chopard is full professor at the University of Geneva, and group leader in the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. He earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Geneva in 1988. He then spent two years as a postdoc in the laboratory for computer science at MIT (Cambridge, USA), and one year in the Research Center, Juelich (Germany) before joining the computer science department at University of Geneva. His main research interests is the modeling and simulation of complex systems. He is internationally recognized for his work on Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann methods. He wrote more than 200 scientific articles, presenting interdisciplinary research in various fields, such as physics, social and environmental science, bio-medical applications, numerical and optimization methods, parallel computing and multiscale modeling.

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