Schedule

This schedule is not final but this is the anticipated curriculum of TMA4212.

Teaching material

Prerequisites

Subject Topics Subtopics
Linear algebra Basics Vector and matrix norms; Symmetric Positive Definite matrices; Inner product spaces; Linear independence; basis of a vector space; orthonormal basis.
Matrix factorizations Diagonalization and orthogonal diagonalization of matrices; LU decomposition (Gaussian elimination, pivoting); Cholesky factorization; QR factorization; SVD; Jordan Canonical form; Schur factorization.
Topics of interest in numerical linear algebra Spectral radius; Gershgoring's theorem; Condition number; Neumann series.
Iterative methods Newton method; fixed point iteration; convergence of the basic iterative methods (Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR) for linear systems.
Calculus Taylor theorem

Schedule

Week Date Teaching material Subject
2 11.01, TMA4212-Introduction Introduction to TMA4212. Examples of numerical solution of real world PDEs
3 18.01, 20.01 Owren2017tns: 1,2,3. Owren2017tns: 4.1–4.2 Difference operators and difference formulae. Classification of linear PDEs. Methods for parabolic problems. Heat equation
4 25.01, 27.01 Owren2017tns: 4.3–4.5, 5 Heat equation. Stability, consistence and convergence.
5 01.02, 03.02 TMA4212_Presentations_20210201. Owren2017tns: 6.1-6.6 Numerical examples, convergence studies, manufactured solutions. Elliptic equations.
6 08.02, 10.02 TMA4212_Presentations_20210210. Owren2017tns: 6.7-6.11 Numerical examples, convergence studies, adaptive grids. How to write technical reports Elliptic equations.
7 15.02, 17.02 Owren2017tns: 7 Hyperbolic equations.
8 22.02, 24.02 JCS2004fds: Ch 13&14 Numerical solution of linear systems.
9 01.03, 03.03 Curry2018tp2: 1 -4 Introduction to FEM. BVPs and the Galerkin method, Variational problems, Stability and convergence of Galerkin method
10 08.03, 10.03 Curry2018tp2: 5. TMA4212_Presentations_20210309 2D Poisson equation, Convergence studies for heat equation
11 15.03, 17.03 Project work - No lectures
12 22.03, 24.03 Project work - No lectures
13 27.03, 29.03 Easter holiday.
14 , 07.04 Project work - No lectures
15 12.04, 14.04 Project work - No lectures
16 19.04, 21.04 Project work - No lectures
17 26.04, Info and questions related to the Project
2021-04-21, Trond Kvamsdal