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Advanced Numerical Methods (LMECA2300)

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Advanced Numerical Methods in 2025-2026
This year, the course will focus on numerical methods for granular materials.
Granular materials are widespread in various fields and at various scales: they are implied in the mining, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, as well in geophyiscal flows such as avalanches or volcanic eruptions, and even in astronomy with asteroid belts and the rings of Saturn.
However, their divided nature makes them difficult to describe with classical continuum mechanics laws.
Numerical methods thus appear as a key tool in the study of the behaviour of granular materials.
Together, we will explore the different approaches used in the Discrete Elements Method, which is widely used in the simulation on such materials.

This course will also give insights on state-of-the art research in the field, by presenting research results obtained with MigFlow, an open-source software developed at UCLouvain and dedicated to the study of immersed granular flows.

Information about this course can also be found on ZouLab.

Lecturers: Vincent Legat and Michel Henry

Teaching assistants: James Gosselet, Alexandre Pirot and Simon Yans.

Lectures schedule : Fridays 2-4 pm.

Homeworks and project will be done in python language !
No prerequisites, except numerical methods (LEPL1104) and informatics (LEPL1401).

(2023-09-25 03:51:33)

First lecture en 2025-2026 :-)
The first lecture will be given by Prof. Vincent Legaton Friday February 6th 2026 2pm in room BARB21.

The lectures and the project will be devoted to granular flows.. It will be again a very exciting topic !