MATH 536 - Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations I

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Faculty of Science

Finite difference and finite element methods for boundary-value problems of elliptic equations. Numerical algorithms for large systems of linear algebraic equations: direct, classical relaxation, multigrid and preconditioned conjugate gradient methods. Algorithms for vector/parallel computers and the domain decomposition method. Prerequisites: MATH 337, 436 or equivalent and some computer programming.