Elmer Basic Course
A basic training course in the use of Elmer will take place in May 28th in conjuction with the 2nd Elmer User Meeting. The course is intended for persons with no or little prior knowledge of Elmer but some background on the solution of partial differential equations. This course will be the first public showcase of a totally new preprocessor of Elmer. Also more experienced Elmer users interested in the new preprocessor may find the course useful.
Program
The program consists of lectures and hand-on exercices given by Elmer developers. Below is a preliminary agenda:
- 9.00-9.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.30-9.40 Welcome
- 9.40-10.00 Overview of Elmer: terminology, components, etc. (Peter Råback)
- 10.00-11.20 Using Elmer with the new preprocessor (Mikko Lyly)
- 11.20-11.40 Break
- 11.40-12.20 Inside ElmerSolver (Thomas Zwinger)
- 12.20-13.20 Lunch
- 13.20-14.20 ElmerSolver command file (Thomas Zwinger)
- 14.20-15.20 Using Elmer cont. (Peter Råback)
- 15.20-15.50 Coffee Break
- 15.50-16.30 Basic programming (Mikko Lyly)
- 16.30-16.45 Questions & discussion
Materials
- Instruction on Rayleigh Benard case
- ElmerIntroSlides_May2008_course.pdf
- Input Files for Examples (ZIP-Format)
- Instructions for Examples
- Elmer Solver Command File (lecture)
- Inside Elmer Solver (lecture)
- 35 euros + VAT (23%) for Finnish academics
- 105 euros + VAT (23%) for others
Registration
Additional information
For more information on the course, please contact Thomas Zwinger
(Thomas.Zwinger(at)csc.fi, +358-9-457 2183) or Peter Råback (Peter.Raback(at)csc.fi, +358-9-457 2080). Note also the Elmer user meeting the following day. For more information on Elmer look at the web pages in http://www.csc.fi/elmer/.
