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Solving Burgers' equation on a moving grid is a way to handle moving fronts or shocks by adapting the grid to the solution at each ti...

VDM-Verlag publishes specialist monographs, and they decided that my old masters thesis fit the bill. I imagine that it's probably bec...

Or "how to retain your critical thinking skills while being PowerPointed to death". I recently wrote about PowerPoint Engineering ...

I've been posting lately on solving Burgers' equation on moving grids , but haven't said much about difficulties involved in pro...

In the last post on solving Burgers' equation on a moving grid we ended up with the semi-discrete equation for the rates: where the spa...

The familiar inviscid Burgers' equation on a non-moving, physical-space coordinate system: Now we want to transform the equation, which...

I have always been inspired by Edward Tufte's work. As an engineer in the aerospace industry, successfully working in large organizatio...

Now that I've got a nice handy spectral derivative routine , time to test it out on some practical problems (ie non-smooth). A useful sc...

I've done several posts lately about finite difference methods. Spectral methods are the ultimate extension of these same basic idea...