Math 579 - Numerical Differential Equations (Winter 2012)

 

General Information

 

Location

Burnside Hall 1205

Time

Tuesday and Thursday - 10:05 - 11:25

Instructor

Jean-Christophe Nave

office

Burnside hall 1121 - after class (or by appointment)

email

jcnave@math.mcgill.ca

website

http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jcnave/courses/math579/

 

Math 579 - Syllabus (last updated 1/11/12)

Course Survey

McGill Academic Calendar

5th Numerical Saturday Workshop

 

Where/When: The workshop will be held in Burnside Hall ...

Some topics:

·         Eikonal equation

·         Stochastic PDEs

·         Conservation laws (e.g. traffic flow)

·         Navier-Stokes equations

·         Maxwell equations

·         Gradient-Augmented schemes

·         Obstacle problems

·         ...

 

Seminars

                Students enrolled in Math 579 are strongly encouraged to attend the following seminars:

            CRM Applied Math Seminar

            CRM-ISM Colloquium

Assignments 

 

Assignment 1

Out: 02/05/2012

Due: 02/16/2012

assignment-1.pdf   solutions-1.pdf

Assignment 2

Out: 03/04/2012

Due: 03/15/2012

assignment-2.pdf, solution-2.pdf, RK3_WENO5.m

Assignment 3

Out: 03/18/2012

Due: 03/29/2012

assignment-3.pdf

Assignment 4

Out: 03/31/2012

Due: 04/12/2012

assignment-4.pdf, ic_phi.m, mit18086_navierstokes.m, mit18336_spectral_ns2d.m

 

 

Useful Links

 

LyX (Free and simple LaTeX editor)

Numerical Recipes

Numerical Analysis Digest

Matlab Tutorials

Free alternatives to Matlab: Octave and SciLab.