General Information

Course Description

• Tuesday 16:15 - 18:00 at F2
• Thursday 14:15 - 16:00 at F2

Starting on August 23, 2011

• Monday 14:15-15:00 at F4

Starting on August 29, 2011

• Espen R. Jakobsen

• Håkon Marthinsen

• Project (25%)
• Final exam (75%)
  • Time: 10.12.2011; 09:00 - 13:00
  • Aids: C (Rottmann Matematisk formelsamling and approved calculator)

• Curriculum 2011

If you are serious about learning this course, you have to do the home work problems.

• New problems every week.
• Help is available at the exercise classes (Lecturer and Assistant)
• Written solutions will be made available eventually.

We will use the same course material as in 2009, i.e. notes (in Norwegian) made by Harald Krogstad and copies of parts of books:

• Dimensjonsanalyse og skalering
• Populasjonsmodeller
• Modeller basert på bevarelsesprinsipper
• Copies of Lin & Segel (1988) Chapters 9 and 10 (Singular perturbation)
• Copies of Logan (1987) Sections 6.1 and 6.2 (Stability and bifurcations)

A booklet collecting the above notes and copies will eventually be sold at department office.

• The content of the notes are for the most part covered by the book Lin & Segel (see below).
• There may be some additional notes.

• S. Howison: Practical Applied Mathematics - Modelling, Analysis, Approximation. Cambridge University Press, 2005 (used as textbook in 2005)

• A.C. Fowler: Mathematical Models in the Applied Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 1997, Cambridge (more advanced than Howison)

• C.C. Lin og L.A. Segel: Mathematics Applied to Deterministic Problems in the Natural Sciences, SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics (traditional textbook for this course)

• F.R. Giordano, W.P. Fox, S.R. Horton og M.D. Weir: A First Course in Mathematical Modelling, 2009, 4th Ed., Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning (elementary)

• C.M. Bender og S.A. Orzag: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Springer 1999 (classic, reference book)

• J.D. Logan: Applied Mathematics, 3rd ed., Wiley 2006 (reference book)