Computational Physics

Computational Physics is a vigorous subject due to its interdisciplinary nature. In this spirit, the volume brings together lecture notes from leading computational physicists in quite disparate areas of research interest. The resulting collection of essays should be a valuable resource in an area where there are few standard textbooks at the present time.

The volume is made up of lecture notes and introductory articles representative of the Summer School on Computational Physics which was held at the Australian National University in 1996. Several of the authors are world-renowned for their contributions to this new — and rapidly evolving — area, and this volume will be a useful supplement to textbooks at the graduate, advanced undergraduate, and professional levels.

• Teaching Computational Physics in a Week: An Attempt (S E Koonin & K Langanke)
• MATHEMATICA and Physics (P C Abbott)
• Introduction to Parallel Programming (W H Press)
• Visiometrics in Computational Fluid Dynamics (N J Zabusky)
• Collapse, Intensification and Reconnection in Vortex Dominated Flows: Visiometrics and Modeling (N J Zabusky et al.)
• Particle Methods and Plasma Physics (J M Dawson & V K Decyk)
• Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (R G Storer)
• Solving Quantum Many-Body Problems with Random Walks (D M Ceperley)
• Quasiparticle Theory of Electron Excitations in Solids (S G Louie)
• Calculation of Electron-Atom Scattering (I Bray)
• Renormalization Group for Hamiltonians (K G Wilson & S D Głazek)