Week 1.2

Numerical Modelling

• Preliminary content in book appendix. Like all appendix chapters, this is not directly exam material. We will cover contents from this chapter in this week as a refresher and build on it later.

• Book theory

  • Approximating Derivatives

  • Initial Value Problems for ODE: Single-step Methods

  • Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Methods

• Lecture slides

• Collegerama recording (TU Delft login required)

• Workshop assignment: Discharge and Storage

  • Part 1: Discharge Estimation and Numerical Integration

  • Part 2: Numerical solution of a linear ODE

• Group assignment: Shiver and Shake

  • Building response to earthquake

  • Report

Programming

Sharing code in reports

• Book chapters:

  • File Paths

  • Markdown

• Programming assignment: Markdown Mania:

  • Report in a markdown file

  • Markdown in a Jupyter notebook file

Programming preparations for workshop and group assignments

• Programming assignment: Markdown Mania:

  • Visualizing a matrix

  • Creating subplots

  • List comprehension

  • Filling a matrix

Fundamental programming concepts

• Programming assignment: Markdown Mania:

  • Flow