Literature

SM Book on spectral methods Spectral Methods: Fundamentals in Single Domains By Claudio Canuto,M. Yousuff Hussaini,Alfio Quarteroni,Thomas A. Zang

NA An introduction to Numerical Analysis, by Süli and Mayers.

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Timetable

Week Date Literature Subject
34 22.08, 24.08 Note by Krogstad and H.H Olsen Meeting for organization of the course. The governing equations for incompressible fluid flow and coupled fluid/thermal problems. Introduction to the course.
35 30.08, 31.08 SM and NA Approximation and interpolation by high order polynomials. The Poisson problem: finite element and spectral discretizations in 1D.
36 06.09, 07.09 The Poisson problem: spectral element discretization in 1D. The Poisson problem: spectral discretization in 2D (and 3D).
37 13.09, 14.09 Programming exercises
38 20.09, 21.09 Guest Lecture
39 27.09, 28.09 Local and global data representations; tensor-product forms; fast diagonalization methods. Spectral methods in deformed geometries; isoparametric mapping.
40 04.10, 05.10 Deformed geometries; the Gordon-Hall algorithm. The Poisson problem: general mixed Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions along curved boundaries.
41 11.10, 12.10 The steady Stokes problem: indroduction. Symmetric saddle problems: the Uzawa algorithm; Lagrange multipliers.
42 18.10, 19.10 Symmetric saddle problems: uniqueness; the inf-sup condition. The steady Stokes problem: uniqueness; the Uzawa algorithm; the P_N-P_{N-2} method.
43 24.10, 25.10 Guest lecture. The steady Stokes problem: the P_N-P_{N-2} method; the stress formulation. Steady convection problems: steady convection-diffusion; steady Navier-Stokes.
44 01.11, 02.11 Time-dependent problems; ODE solvers; single operator treatment. The time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations; operator splitting methods.
45 08.11, 09.11 The time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations: a convection-Stokes splitting scheme. The time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations: a pressure-velocity splitting scheme.
46 15.11 The time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations (summary); computation of basic spectral tools (points, weights, basis, etc). Time-dependent convection problems; numerical dispersion.
47 22.11, 23.11
2016-10-24, Elena Celledoni