Final Class Projects

from the class EPS 109 "Computer Simulations in Earth and Planetary Science"
in fall 2016

Instructor: Burkhard Militzer         GSI: Dino Bellugi

Picture Authors, title, project description Matlab files Movie files
EPS 109 picture By Theresa Sawi

"Harmonograph - Math Meets Music"

2016 Prize for best final project!

presentation.pptx
 harmonograph.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Danica Adams

"Where did all the water go? Magnetic Influences on Mars' Nightside Ionosphere"

presentation.pptx
 Bottle.m
IonsOver.m
MakeAtm.m
PlotChap2.m
PlotMars4.m
bounce.m
magL.m
makeChap.m
marsWind5.m
MSurf.png
MarsSpace.png
 Bottle1.gif
ChapL.gif
IonMovie2.gif
MWind1.gif
PlotMars1.gif
EPS 109 picture By Baeo Maltinsky

"Fun with Forest Fires - A Computational Approach to Percolation Theory"

presentation.pptx
 percredux.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Henry Peterson

"Particle Simulations"

presentation.pptx
 charged_wire.m
collisions.m
collisions2.m
gas.m
massive_objects.m
ode.m
ode2.m
potential.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By Raymond Zhao

"Fission Simulation"

presentation.pptx
 Particle.m
check_collisions.m
is_collision.m
nuclear_collision.m
setup_grid.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Felix Boschetty

"The Development of Contact Metamorphism About a Cooling Dyke"

presentation.pptx
 MetamorphicZone.m
RockThermalProps.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Christopher Ibbotson

"The Flow of H2O"

presentation.pptx
 project.m
project_dam.m
project_dam2.m
project_dam3.m
project_house1.m
project_house2.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
movie3.gif
movie4.gif
movie5.gif
movie6.gif
EPS 109 picture By Jennifer Mills

"Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Crystal Growth"

presentation.pptx
 crystal_growth_step.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
movie3.gif
movie4.gif
EPS 109 picture By Owen Nelson

"Freezing Pool of Water"

presentation.pptx
 Freezing_Lake.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By a student who prefers to remain anonymous until Christmas Eve

"Binary Star Orbits"

presentation.pdf
 binary_orbits.m
kepler_ode_three_objects.m
Comment.txt
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Madelief Schelvis

"Survival of the Fittest"

presentation.pptx
 natural_selection_rabbits.m
rabbit.png
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By Chandler Shaeffer

"Sharks, Mullet, and Mathematical Ecology"

presentation.pptx
 lotka_ode.m
lotka_ode2.m
lotka_ode_c.m
run_lotka_ode.m
run_lotka_ode2.m
run_lotka_ode_c.m
READ_ME.txt
 Movie1.gif
Movie2.gif
Movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By Korbinian Thalhammer

"The Search for Lagrange Point 1"

presentation.pptx
 cm_locationMatrix.m
final_project.m
force12.m
kepler_ode_manyBodies.m
newAsteroidL1.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By Clothilde Venereau

"Modelling the Orbit of Plant 9"

presentation_final.pptx
 giant_planets.m
kepler_ode_giant.m
kepler_ode_planet9.m
planet_9.m
 Movie1.gif
Movie2.gif
Movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By Eric Christiani

"8 Planet Solar System in 4D with Drag"

Presentation.pptx
 SolarSystem.m
kepler_n_ode.m
 Movie1.gif
Movie2.gif
Movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By John Connor

"Condensation Nucleus Simulation"

presentation.pptx
 Condensation.m
MD_ode.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By Christian Furrows

"Image GUI"

Final_Project.pptx
 Final_GUI.m
NOAA-satellite-spots-birth-of-cyclone-in-South-Pacific.jpg
crater_ice.jpg
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Serah Isaac

"Fibonacci Word Fractal"

presentation.pptx
 change_angle.m
draw_angle_segment.m
draw_direction_segment.m
fibonnaci_word_fractal.m
plot_fibonnaci.m
banana.png
 fractal60.gif
fractal90.gif
EPS 109 picture By Kai-Sern Lim

"Fourier Landscape Generation"

presentation.pptx
 landscape.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By Alicia Sadowski

"Eroding Mountains"

presentation.pptx
 erosion_ocean08.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
movie3.gif
EPS 109 picture By Holly Barnhart

"DLA of various particle sizes and shapes"

presentation.pptx
 finalbarnhart.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Tatiana Gospe

"Volcano Building Fun"

presentation.pptx
 finalGospe.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Sara Gutierrez

"Modeling a Geyser"

presentation.pptx
 Final_project.m
path.m
 GEYSERA.gif
EPS 109 picture By Michael Maestas

"Gravitational Waves and Radiation"

presentation.pptx
 Homework11.m
run_homework11.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Xin Ong

"Modeling Rates of Ice Melt"

presentation.pptx
 final_project.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By Sean Osaki

"Splitting of Iceland"

Presentation.pptx
 FinalProject.m
faroeislands.txt
greenland.txt
iceland.txt
leftsideiceland.txt
rightsideiceland.txt
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Andrew Gunem

"Terrain Generator"

presentation.pptx
 Final109Project.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By David Lu

"Gaussian Plume and Building Downwash Model"

presentation.pptx
 gaussianPlume.m
run_building_downwash.m
 movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Sofia Paganin

"Plaid"

Plaid.pptx
 sofiafinal.m
 no_movie.gif
EPS 109 picture By Morgan Welch

"Gravity Assists and the use of the Slingshot method"

presentation.pptx
 Grav_Assist_Sim.m
testkep.m
 movie1.gif
movie2.gif
EPS 109 picture By Theresa Sawi

"Cobwebbing with a Spider"

presentation.pptx
 cobweb.m
 movie.gif

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The files were mostly written with the Matlab version R2016a. Using the standard Matlab movie commands such as avifile(), addframe(), movie(), the resulting AVI movie files became extremely large. That is why most codes saved the individual frames as PNG files that were later on combined into an animated GIF file using ImageMagick's convert utility. (convert -delay 20 frame*.png movie.gif) This resulted into movie files of reasonable size.

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Dec. 17, 2016