Third Granada Lectures in Computational Physics

Computational field theory and pattern formation.- Simulating granular media on the computer.- Some physical and computational aspects of self-organized criticality.- Critical percolation with moving disks.- Fourier techniques in numerical methods for evolutionary problems.- A fast algorithm for the generation of random numbers with exponential and normal distributions.- Numerical simulations of a nonlinear Klein-Gordon model. Applications.- Topics on chaotic dynamics.- Multistable steady states and oscillations in a suface reaction model.- Comparation of two Fokker-Planck modelings for a master equation.- Computational studies of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation and its non-equilibrium potential.- Deterministic simulation of domain pattern formation under instantaneous nucleation conditions.- Morphological instabilities of a nematic-smectic B interface.- Dynamic time rescaled Monte Carlo algorithm.- Pattern formation in convection of rotating fluids.- Codimension two bifurcation in unidimensional heating.- Cylinders and wheels rolling into Chaos.- On the transition to columnar convection.- Finite temperature dc conductance of random dimer superlattices.- A multigrid approach to parallel simulations in nonlinear optics.- Surface electromagnetic waves on index-matched interfaces.- Conservative numerical schemes for Euler-Lagrange equations.- Suppression of chaotic behaviour in models of chemical chaos.- Perturbing variables in poincaré sections to suppress chaos.- Ergodic theory for unidimensional Jacobi Matrices.- Order in binary sequences and the properties of the routes to chaos.