Course InformationOutlineHomeworkMatlab TutorialInternet Resources

Numerical Partial Differential Equations I:
Finite Difference Methods


Time and Place: Wed. 10:10-12:00; Thu. 15:10-16:00, Math Building 3171
Lecturer: Min-Hung Chen
Office: Math Building Rm. 404; Ph. 2757575 Ext 65127
e-mail: mhchen@math.ncku.edu.tw
Web: www.math.ncku.edu.tw/~mhchen
Prerequisite: Calculus, Linear Algebra.
Text: None.
References:

Grades will be based upon: Homework and in-class participation
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OUTLINE:

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Homework

  • Homework 1 (Due Oct. 13), Sample code (zip file). If there is any mistake in my code, please let me know ASAP.
  • Homework 2 (pdf),
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    Matlab tutorial

  • Matlab tutorial (postscript file), (pdf file)
  • tutorial.tar, tutorial.rar, tutorial.zip,
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    Internet Resources

  • Flaherty's Course Notes : Computational Linear Algebra, ODE, PDE, Finite Element Analysis.
  • Website of Douglas Arnold:
         Lecture Notes (Numerical Analysis), Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing
  • Website of Yousef Saad: Iterative methods for sparse linear systems
  • Finite Difference and Spectral Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations by Lloyd N. Trefethen
  • Website of Randall J. LeVeque Lecture Notes of "Finite Difference Methods for Differential Equations"(ps.gz)
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    Min-Hung Chen 2005-09-21