A brief and practical introduction to the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws. This set of IPython notebooks was originally prepared for a 1-day tutorial that I taught in Gyor, Hungary in May 2014 as part of the Workshop on Design, Simulation, Optimization and Control of Green Vehicles and Transportation.

The easiest way to run these is to create a free account on SageMathCloud. Then create a new project, click "new file", type https://github.com/ketch/HyperPython.git into the box and hit enter. That's it!

To run the notebooks on your own computer, you'll need:

• Python >=2.7
• IPython >=1.2.0
• Numpy
• Matplotlib
• Clawpack >=5.1

The last four can all be installed using pip:

pip install ipython
pip install numpy
pip install matplotlib
pip install clawpack

Then clone or download the repository.

To start the course, do

git clone https://github.com/ketch/HyperPython.git
cd HyperPython
ipython notebook

and click on Lesson 0.

The design of the notebooks and their organization was inspired by Lorena Barba's excellent AeroPython course.

If you spot any errors or would like to make improvements, pull requests are welcome!

Content provided under a Creative Commons Attribution license, CC-BY 4.0; code under MIT License.

(c)2014 David I. Ketcheson