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SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1

Introduction to numerical methods in engineering

MATLAB® proficiency evaluation

First day of classes

Homework 1 out

MATLAB® workshop one day after Ses #1

2

Number representations

Errors of numerical operations

Recursion

3

Error analysis

Error propagation

Condition numbers

MATLAB® workshop one day after Ses #3
4

Roots of non-linear equations

General/Bisection/Secant/Newton-Raphson methods

Homework 2 out
5

Linear systems

Gaussian elimination

Homework 1 due
6

Linear systems

Multiple right-hand-sides

LU factorization

7

Special matrices

Examples

8

Linear systems

Iterative techniques

Gauss-Seidel

9

Root finding and linear systems

Examples and applications

Homework 2 due
10

Optimization

Curve fitting

11

Interpolation

Polynomial interpolation

Lagrange polynomials

Splines

12

Fourier interpolation

Fourier transforms

13Quiz 1
14

Numerical integration

Newton-Cotes

Gaussian quadratutre

Homework 3 out
15

Numerical differentiation

Finite differences

Ordinary differential equations

Initial value problems

Euler's method

16

ODE-IVP

Runge-Kutta methods

Homework 4 out one day after Ses #16
17

Higher order ODEs

Boundary value problems

Homework 3 due

18

Partial differential equations

Introduction

Examples

Drop date
19PDE review
20

PDEs

Parabolic equations

21

PDEs

Elliptic equations

22Finite element methodsHomework 4 due
23

Boundary element methods

Panel methods (1)

24

Boundary element methods

Panel methods (2)

25Review
26Quiz 2

 








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