Contents

These pages will be used primarily for posting material relevant to the lectures on hyperbolic problems, finite volume methods, Clawpack, and GeoClaw.

Course materials

• Resources
• Slides from lectures
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
• Software installation
• Virtual Machine for the summer school
  • Disk space required
  • Setting up the VM in VirtualBox
  • Multicore capability
  • Starting the VM
  • Shutting down
  • Sharing folders
  • Fixing network issues
• Sample Clawpack codes
• Clawpack Quickstart guide
  • Changing parameters
  • Next steps
• Sample GeoClaw codes
• Geotools Python module
  • Plotting topo data
• Tutorial on Tuesday July 31
• Some good sources for tsunami data
  • Topography / bathymetry
  • DART buoy data
  • Tide gauges
  • Earthquake source models