Modeling Project

• The modeling project is optional and to take it you must register.
• It counts for 20% of the final grade whether you take it or not.
• In the project you will work on a modeling problem in a group of 4-5 students over a period of 3 weeks.

• Registration deadline: 18.10.2015
• Problems published: 29.10.
• Preparations: Before 2.11. you should
  • Read the proposals and start thinking about the project.
  • Read carefully the information under 'Modeling project' in left menu.
  • Arrange a meeting in the project group to discuss and possibly divide taskes.
• Background presentation of the project and practical questions: 2.11.
• Help sessions: 05.11. - 16.11.
• Deadline sending presentations: 18.11.2015
• Presentation of the results of the projects: 19.11 and 23.11.
• Deadline sending the written project report: 23.11.2015

Tentative Schedule for help sessions:

See also the Questions and Answer page

• We will have groups of 5 students. You may either register a group of 4 persons, or you may register 1 person without a group.
• Persons without any group will be added to existing groups to form 5 person groups or new groups will be formed.

• Register here. Registration is closed.

The project description (version updated 17/11).

• Note on mimetic discretization : This is a note which explains the mimetic discretization. But it has grown in an uncontroled manner while I was writing it! It is not necessary to read this note entirely to understand how to use the code, just read the summary and I will try to write a softer introduction.
• Poisson solver (updated 12/11): Code written in Matlab using MRST. The download page for MRST can be found here. Run the startup.m script, which sets up the path variable. The first time you run the Poisson solver you have to load the mimetic module: mrstModule add mimetic
• Slides used for the presentation of the project.
• Laplace solver on irregular grid (slides)
• Sets of small scripts that have been used to generate the plots in the presentation above. They can be useful to get familiar with MRST grid structure.
• Note on the Lax-Friedrichs flux approximation.

• The groups for the project are available here.

• The group can exclude anyone not doing their fair share.

1. A written note/report 5-10 pages long.
   • Send me (Elena) the report in PDF-format by email.
   • Name the report: ReportG??.pdf where ?? is replaced by group number.
     
     
2. A X minutes presentation in front of class (make 4-5 slides)
   
   • Email the slides (PDF) to me (Anders) the day before the presentation.
   • Name the file: SlidesG??.pdf where ?? is replaced by group number.

• Do not use names or candidate numbers! Only group numbers and student numbers of its members.

• Manage your time:
  • Expected total time per person: About 3x12=36 hours.
  • Try to plan, focus, and limit the work so that you get some results in the expected time without using many extra hours.
  • Imagine you work in a company and the group is given 3 weeks and 36 hours per member to finish the project (some results, report, presentation). Do your best with these constraints.
• Focus on one of the projects - at least to begin with. You are not expected to work on all the projects.
• You can present partial answers and results.
• Try and fail is ok as long as you do not cover up.
• You may discuss across the groups, but reports and presentations must be made independently.
• You may use any literature you find, but you must give references to the source!
• Do not copy from any source without understanding the material first!

More information (in Norwegian): Guidelines from 2009

• Do not use too much time during your presentation.
• Language: Norwegian or English
• Vote for best presentation: Anonymous voting, one group one vote, you can not vote for your own group.
  Counts positively towards the grade.
  • Results: . votes in total.
• Schedule (Thursday XX.11.):