I.  Crystal precipitation
  - physical model leading to ODE system
  - about ODEs - well posedness of IVP
  - equilibria - root finding (Newton method) - plotting
  - analysis of the model
  - Euler scheme - computational errors 
                 - consistency-stability-convergence
                 - implementation
  - classical RK4

II. Air pollution
  - linear advection - wave propagation
                     - 1st order PDEs - method of characteristics
  - the general consrvation law  ut + div F = 0
                     - derivation from first principles
                     - conservation of species
                     - advective-diffusive fluxes
                     - continuity equation
  - finite volume discretization of  ut + Fx = 0 - explicit/implicit
  - advection ( F = uV )    - explicit upwind scheme
                            - CFL condition - implementation
  - diffusion ( F = -Dux ) - parabolic PDEs - boundary conditions
                            - explicit scheme - CFL condition
  - advection-diffusion ( F = uV - Dux ) 
                            - explicit scheme - CFL condition
                            - effect of small/large Peclet number
                            - super-time-stepping acceleration
  - a few words about Lax-Wendroff and other schemes


Possible other topics:

III.Development of color film negative
  - chemical reactions - reaction rate - diffusion-reaction model
  - the diffusion equation - maximum principle
  - numerical scheme for the diffusion-reaction system
  - steady-state system - overdeveloping the film

IV. The catalytic converter
  - diffusion-reaction model
  - control problem
  - calculus of variations - Euler-Lagrange equation
  - numerical scheme for the forward model                   

V.  Melting and Freezing
  - phase-change basics, moving boundary problems
  - Stefan Problem, exact solution, analytic approximations
  - enthalpy formulation, explicit scheme


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