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Advection and Pendulum

Set the Courant number so upwind advection stays bounded, extrapolate from two grid levels with Richardson, and compare Euler and RK4 energy drift for a nonlinear pendulum.

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Set the Courant number so upwind advection stays bounded, extrapolate from two grid levels with Richardson, and compare Euler and RK4 energy drift for a nonlinear pendulum.

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University, Computational Methods for Engineers

Expected time: 10–15 minutes.

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