The 2025 ANITA summer school on Computational Multiphysics Hydrodynamics will take place Tuesday - Friday, 28 - 31 January 2025 at the Mount Stromlo Observatory Visitor Centre.
- Instructors and topics
- Preparing for the school
- Getting to and from Mount Stromlo
- School shedule
- Participant list
| Prof Daniel Price Monash University Hydrodynamics |
Prof Christoph Federrath Australian National University Magnetoydrodynamics |
Dr Lucia Armillotta Arcetri Observatory Cosmic ray MHD |
Dr Ben Wibking Michigan State University GPU acceleration |
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Preparing for the school
The school includes extensive hands-on tutorials with various codes, which we will run on OzStar at Swinburne. In order to ensure that you are able to participate fully, you must create an OzStar account linked to the school, and set up a VSCode environment on it before the start of the school.
To get set up on OzStar, please carry out the following steps:
- Visit the OzStar account page, and, if you do not already have an account, click "New Account Request". (Students who already have an OzStar account can skip this step.)
- Once you are logged into your OzStar account, click "Request to Join A Project" and select project oz978.
- Your request will then be forwarded to school administartion for approval; this step may require a few days, so do not wait until the start of the schoool. You will be notified once your request is completed.
To get VSCode set up, please carry out the following steps:
- Download and install VScode on your personal laptop from the VScode site.
- Ensure that you have a working ssh client on your machine; if you are uncertain if you have one, please follow these instructions.
- Set up an ssh key to provide passwordless access to ozstar, following this tutorial. This step is optional, but is recommended to save you having to type your password repeatedly.
- Open VSCode, click the gear icon in the lower left corner, and select "Command Palette"
- From the command palette menu that appears, select "Remote-SSH: Connect to Host..."
- Enter username@ozstar.swin.edu.au, where username is the username on your OzStar account. Type your password if necessary. At this point a window should appear showing giving access to your files on OzStar.
Students are also encouraged to watch Daniel Price's lectures on YouTube prior to commencement of the school, and to read through the accompany notes. These will provide some introductory material about hydrodynamics and MHD in general, whereas the lectures for the school will focus more strongly on numerics.
Getting to and from Mount Stromlo
Mount Stromlo Observatory is not accessible by public transit and is not within walking distance of the CBD. We will operate a bus service from the Novotel Canberra to the Mount Stromlo Observatory Visitor Centre and back every day of the school and workshop. Buses will depart from the Novotel bus bay every day at 9:15 am for arrival at Mount Stromlo at 9:45 am, and will depart Mount Stromlo at 5:45 pm for a return to the hotel around 6:15 pm. Parking is available at the MSO Visitor Centre for those who wish to travel in their own vehicles.
School schedule
The daily schedule for the school is as follows:
| Time / Date | Tue, 28 Jan | Wed, 29 Jan | Thu, 30 Jan | Fri, 31 Jan |
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| Lecturer | Daniel Price | Christoph Federrath | Lucia Armillotta | Ben Wibking |
| Topic | Hydrodynamics / PHANTOM | MHD / FLASH | Cosmic ray MHD / Athena++ | GPU acceleration / QUOKKA |
| 9:15 | Bus pickup from the Novotel | Bus pickup from the Novotel | Bus pickup from the Novotel | Bus pickup from the Novotel |
| 9:45 | Bus arrival at Mount Stromlo | Bus arrival at Mount Stromlo | Bus arrival at Mount Stromlo | Bus arrival at Mount Stromlo |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Welcome to Country, Paul Girrawah House | |||
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Lecture 1: Introduction to numerical hydrodynamics | Lecture 1: From hydrodynamics to the MHD equations | Lecture 1: Introduction to cosmic ray physics | Lecture 1: Introduction to GPUs and exascale computing |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Morning tea | Morning tea | Morning tea | Morning tea |
| 11:20 - 12:10 | Lecture 2: A whipcrack tour of particle methods | Lecture 2: Non-ideal MHD and particle-in-cell (PIC), examples of science applications (star formation, jets/outflows, turbulent dynamos) | Lecture 2: Numerical schemes for cosmic ray transport coupled with MHD | Lecture 2: The design and implementation of an AMR multiphysics code for GPUs |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Practical tutorial: Setting up your programming environment, using git, intro to PHANTOM
Links to handouts: Intro to unix Intro to programming in Fortran Intro to git and version control |
Practical tutorial: Introduction to FLASH | Practical tutorial: Introduction to Athena++ and code setup | Practical tutorial: Setting up your GPU compile/test/run environment on HPC resources |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop 1: writing your own SPH code | Workshop 1: setting up FLASH code, simple tests (shocktube, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Sedov explosion) | Workshop 1: hands-on exercises with the CR-MHD scheme in Athena++ | Workshop 1: GPU programming exercises |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon tea | Afternoon tea | Afternoon tea | Afternoon tea |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Workshop 2: writing your own SPH code, using Phantom, interactive visualisation and making movies with SPLASH
Links to resources: Phantom: getting started on Ozstar Phantom git repo SPLASH documentation |
Workshop 2: TurbGen and running turbulent dynamo simulations, analyse and plot results using python tools | Workshop 2: hands-on exercises with the CR-MHD scheme in Athena++ | Workshop 2: running QUOKKA on GPUs |
| 17:45 | Bus departure from Mount Stromlo | Bus departure from Mount Stromlo | Bus departure from Mount Stromlo | Bus departure from Mount Stromlo |
| 18:15 | Bus arrival at the Novotel | Bus arrival at the Novotel | Bus arrival at the Novotel | Bus arrival at the Novotel |
| 19:00 | School dinner, Ethiopian on Northbourne |
| Name | Affiliation |
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| Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara | Australian National University |
| Neelesh Amrutha | RSAA - ANU |
| Amrita Banerjee | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Imogen Barnsley | The University of Adelaide |
| Amatul Firdausya Nur Cahyaningtyas | University of Melbourne |
| Kenny Chan | Macquarie University - Montana State University |
| Shun Cheung | Monash University |
| Hillary Davis | Sydney University |
| Smrithi Gireesh Babu | University of Sydney |
| Samuel Hansen | University of Tasmania |
| Miftahul Hilmi | The University of Melbourne |
| Fitz Hu | Monash |
| Ana Lourdes Juarez Garcia | Macquarie University |
| Kayla Martin | Macquarie University |
| Carmen Martinez Harris | Queensland University of Technology |
| Bridget Mcfarlane | Monash University |
| Edmund Mckennall | University of Adelaide |
| Melissa Mckenzie | Queensland University of Technology |
| Jordan Moncrieff | University of Western Australia |
| Ankita Mondal | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Huon Morton | Queensland University of Technology |
| Chunliang Mu | Macquarie University |
| Haritha Mullathody | The University Of Melbourne |
| Jack Nibbs | Macquarie University |
| Jemma Pilossof | The University of Adelaide |
| Jason Price | ANU |
| Huimin Qu | the University of Sydney |
| Luke Rosier | University of Queensland |
| Amit Seta | Australian National University |
| Megha Sharma | Monash University |
| Zachary Steyn | ANU |
| Janet Tang | RSAA, ANU |
| Truman Tapia | ICRAR |
| Cameron Taylor | University of Melbourne |
| Riley Thai | Monash University |
| Dylan Theron | University of Sydney |
| James Watt | Australian National University |
| Jordan Winstanley | University of Western Australia |
| Pavadol Yamsiri | The University of Sydney |
| Sophie Young | University of Tasmania |
| Justin Yu | University of Melbourne |
| Ziqi Yuan | Macquarie University |