Scope of questions for State exams of Master's degree program
Branch: Physics of Plasma and Thermonuclear Fusion
Subject: Computational Physics
Subjects regarding the questions:
- 12PF1 Computational Physics 1
- 12PF2 Computational Physics 2
- Programming languages for scientific computing, tools for code debugging and error detection, parallelization, supercomputers
- Methods of artificial intelligence in computational physics, expert systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks
- Complex systems, chaos, applications in physics
- Molecular dynamics, potentials and integration of equations of motion
- Monte Carlo method, Metropolis algorithm, transport of particles
- Solving the transport of charged plasma particles by Particle in Cell method, stability and applicability of the method, interpolation of quantities to the computational mesh
- Methods for solving Maxwell's equations, method of finite differences in temporal domain
- Computational dynamics of compressible fluids, conservation laws, Euler equations, Eulerian numerical methods
- Lagrangian and ALE methods, mesh smoothing, conservative interpolations
- Basic models of physical effects in hydrodynamic codes, laser absorption, heat conductivity, equations of state