Particle Methods

Information for Summer Semester 2026:

Access to the OPAL page of the course will open on 21/04/26.

Schedule:
Lectures: Wednesday,11:10-12:40, APB/E023/U 
Exercises: Friday, 11:10-12:40, APB/E009/U   

The planning and overview lecture for the course will be held on 15/04/26 from 11:10 at APB/E023/U.

Please note that the registration for this course has to be completed on SELMA. OPAL is not a course registration platform.

This course teaches the foundations of Particle Methods. Particle methods are a numerical simulation framework that allows simulating both discrete and continuous systems. Particles can represent agents, such as cars in a traffic simulation, or mathematical discretization points, such as when numerically solving differential equations. Particle methods are the most versatile simulation framework and indeed the only one that allows seamless treatment of all types of models using the same algorithms and data structures. After this course, you will be able to implement and use particle-based simulations of both continuous and discrete systems.