Lecture plan
The curriculum is taken from A. Quarteroni (Q), Numerical Models for Differential Problems, Springer 2008.
We will also use some material from Brenner & Scott (BS): The Mathematical Theory for Finite Element Methods, Springer 2008.
The topics included are:
- Introduction
- The Poisson equation:
- Weak formulation
- Finite element method
- Implementation
- Error analysis
- Finite element function spaces
- Abstract formalism
- Steady convection-diffusion problem
- Time-dependent convection-diffusion problem.
Schedule
Lectures: Tuesday 08:15-10:00 and Thursday 12:15-14:00.
The topics will be described as we proceed.
Lecture | Topics | Reading | |
---|---|---|---|
24.08 | Introduction. FEM-History and FEM applications. | Slides | |
26.08 | Poisson: PDE, Minimization and weak form. | LN-1 and Chapter 1. in Quarteroni | |
31.08 | Mathematical Background. | LN-1, Chapter 2. in Quarteroni, and Chapter 1. in Brenner& Scott | |
02.09 | Definitions of Lebesgue and Sobolov spaces | LN-1 and Chapter 1. in Brenner & Scott | |
07.09 | Discretization of the Poisson Problem in \(R^1\) : Formulation. | LN-2 and Sections 3.1 and 3.2 in Quarteroni | |
09.09 | Discretization of the Poisson problem in \(R^1\). Formulation (continue) | LN-2 and Section 3.2 in Quarteroni | |
14.09 | Discretization of the Poisson Problem in \(R^1\): Theory | LN-3 and Sections 4.1-4.3 in Quarteroni | |
16.09 | Discretization of the Poisson Problem in \(R^1\): Implementation | LN-3 | |
21.09 | No lecture | ||
23.09 | FEM for the Poisson Problem in \(R^2\) | LN-4 and Section 4.4 in Quarteroni | |
28.09 | FEM for the Poisson Problem in \(R^2\) (continnue) | LN-4 and Section 4.4 in Quarteroni | |
30.09 | No lecture | ||
04.10 | Abstract FEM: Construction of a Finite Element Space | Chapter 3. in Brenner & Scott | |
05.10 | Triangular elements | Chapter 3. in Brenner & Scott | |
07.10 | No lecture | ||
11.10 | Triangular elements (continued) | Chapter 3. in Brenner & Scott | |
12.10 | Quadrilateral Elements | Chapter 3. in Brenner and Scott | |
14.10 | Isoparametric mapping | Deformed Geometries, IFEM Ch16 and IFEM Ch17 | |
18.10 | Adaptive FEM (AFEM): A priori estimates | AFEM-notes_TMA4220. (See Blackboard) | |
19.10 | No lecture | ||
21.10 | No lecture | ||
25.10 | Adaptive FEM (AFEM): A posteriori estimates | AFEM-notes_TMA4220. (See Blackboard) | |
26.10 | Adaptive FEM (AFEM): Adaptive refinement | AFEM-notes_TMA4220. (See Blackboard) | |
28.10 | Spectrum of Laplace operator | Spectrum of Laplace Operator | |
01.11 | Time-dependent diffusion | Time-dependent diffusion | |
02.11 | Convection-Diffusion. Introduction | ER-1 | |
04.11 | Convection-Diffusion: Example and Theory | ER-2, ER-3 | |
08.11 | No lecture | ||
09.11 | No lecture | ||
11.11 | No lecture |