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Numerical Methods for PDEs - Winter Quarter 2017

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MATH228B - Numerical Methods for PDEs

Professor: Bob Guy

UC Davis - Winter 2017

Course website: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~guy/teaching/228b/

This course is part of the sequence 228A-C on numerical methods for partial differential equations. The second quarter (228B) will focus on time dependent problems. The topics we will cover this quarter are listed below.

  • Introduction (Fourier transforms, derivation of conservation laws, parabolic and hyperbolic PDEs)
  • Numerical ODEs (briefly)
  • Stability, accuracy, and convergence
  • Von Neumann analysis
  • Diffusion (reaction-diffusion) equation in multiple dimensions
  • Nonrectangular geometry (logically quadrilateral grids and embedded grids)
  • Methods for advection equation in 1D
  • Dissipation and dispersion, modified equations
  • Hyperbolic conservation laws
  • Godunov method, wave propagation, and high-resolution methods