Volunteer to report today's Highlights at next class. One minute or less, 2 or 3 points, not a blow-by-blow transcript.
Discussion of Syllabus.
Reading for Wednesday- Versteeg & Malalasekera, Chapter 2; Patankar, pages 1-39. Skim the text for ideas and concepts ("flavors"), don't try to absorb the details.
Planning ahead for next Monday - 2 minutes to present your trial ideas for a project (and to ask classmates for feedback or help :))
Solving problems by theory (modeling) vs experiment.
What do we mean by a continuum? Can a computer represent a continuum?
Discretization - values at key locations, and rules to estimate what happens in between.
Advective-Diffusion problems in the Earth Sciences - examples, and complications.
Other types of problems - e.g. elastic and acoustic (seismic) waves.
Conservation Laws.
Highlights.