MA 61500, Spring 2014

Course Description

Credit Hours: 3.00. (CS 615) Finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations; weak formulation; finite-dimensional approximations; error bounds; algorithmic issues; solving sparse linear systems; finite element method for parabolic partial differential equations; backward difference and Crank-Nicholson time-stepping; introduction to finite difference methods for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations; stability, consistency, and convergence; discrete maximum principles. Prerequisite: MA 51400, 52300. Typically offered Spring.

Instructor Info.

Section	Room	Time		Instructor	Office
MA 61500 001	MATH 215	9:30am	MWF	Lucier, Bradley	MATH 400

Course Materials

Section	Type	Title	Author
ALL	Textbook	Partial Differential Equations with Numerical Methods	Stig Larsson, Vidar Thomee
ALL	Textbook	Partial Differential Equations with Numerical Methods - Online textbook is available at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-88706-5/page/1	Larsson, Stig, Thomee, Vidar

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