TMA4305 Partial Differential Equations - Fall 2022

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  • Re-sit examination:
    • Date: Friday 18.8
    • The exam will be a standard oral exam, where you answer questions for about 40 min. Paper and black/whiteboard will be available.
    • I will contact those signed up for the exam via email in week 29.
  • Exam (updated 7.12):
    • I handed in the grades today.
    • The exam and a solution can be found on the previous exam page!
    • The grading guidelines (also called sensurveiledning) can be found on BB!
  • Mattelab:
    • Monday 28.11, 15:00-17:00, G21
    • Wednesday 30.11, 15:00-17:00, G21
  • Week 47:
    • Since there have been very few suggestions for week 47, we agreed on the following:
      • 22.11.: No lecture, but you have a look at the exam from 2021.
      • 24.11.: We have a look at the exam from 2021 together and focus on those problems that you are most interested in.
  • Exam:
    • You need to bring your own computer to the exam with the Safe exam browser installed.
    • Please read carefully this page and especially the preparations part in case you use Linux.
    • Your answer in the classical way using pen and paper, see here for more details.
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  • 2.11: No exercise class, but if you have questions stop by my office.
  • 24.10: Updated the exam information and the tentative curriculum.
  • 28.9: No exercise class
  • Welcome to TMA4305 Partial Differential Equations!
  • 1st lecture: Tuesday 23.8
  • 1st exercise class: Wednesday 31.8
  • These pages will be updated regularly throughout the whole semester. As a consequence Blackboard will be used as little as possible, i.e., for important or urgent announcements or other information that does not need to be visible to the entire world.

General information

Lecturer

  • Katrin Grunert
  • Office 1150, Sentralbygg 2
  • Office hours: by appointment

Lectures

  • Tuesday 14:00-16:00 G21
  • Thursday 14:00-16:00 F4

Exercises

  • Wednesday 14:00-15:00 G21
  • A problem set will be given each week.
  • The problem sets will be supervised in the exercise class. They are part of the curriculum, but are not required to be handed in.
  • In general the exercise class is the right place to
    • get help with the problem sets
    • discuss and ask questions about the material covered in the course

Books and reading material

  • Main book: David Borthwick: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations.
    • A current list of errata is available here
    • Note that you can get the PDF from Springerlink (you must be inside the NTNU network, either physically or via VPN, to get it).
    • I might supplement this book with a few notes and material from other sources.
  • Some other good PDE books include:
    • P. Olver: Introduction to partial differential equations, Springer.
    • S. Salsa: Partial Differential Equations in Action, Springer.
    • L. C. Evans: Partial differential equations, AMS.

Final curriculum

From Borthwick's book (see further below for bibliographic detail) – but note that the introductory sections on model problems for the various equations are for information only; you are not expected to have detailed knowledge of these models or how they are derived.

  • Ch 1 (self study)
  • Ch 2 (background material for much of the book)
  • Ch 3
  • Ch 4
  • Ch 6
  • Ch 7 background material, no proofs
  • Ch 9
  • Ch 10
  • Ch 11
  • Ch 12

In addition:

Note: The notes and the material from other sources might overlap with Borthwick's book.

Reference group

  • If you have any remarks, request, complaints etc. regarding this course, contact the lecturer or the reference group.

Members:

Add @stud.ntnu.no at the end of the email adresses.

  • 1. møte: 16.9: Det ser ut til å gå bra og at ingen tiltak er nødvendig.
  • 2. møte: 18.10: Det ser ut til å fortsatt gå bra og at ingen tiltak er nødvendig.

Exam

  • Dato: 2.12.2022
  • classical written exam, 4 hours
  • Support material code C: Specified printed and hand-written support material is allowed. A specific basic calculator is allowed.
    • One yellow, stamped A4 sheet with own, handwritten formulas and notes (on both sides). Such sheet can be picked up outside the department office in the 7th floor, SBII.
    • No other printed or hand-written support material is allowed.
  • If the course is taught in English, the exam will be given only in English. Students are free to answer in Norwegian or English.
2023-07-17, Katrin Grunert