Math 226C Spring 2016

Math 266C Computational PDE

Meeting Information

• Room: RH 340N
• Day & time: M W F 10 am - 10:50 pm
• Office hour: W F 11:05 am - 12:05 pm

Project and Homework

• Exercises in Adaptive Finite Element Methods. Due date: Apr 11.
• Project: Adaptive FEM for Heat Equation. Due date: May 9.
• Project: MAC scheme for Stokes Equations. Due date: May 23.
• Project: Edge Element for Maxwell Equations. Due date: June 14.

Syllabus

• Adaptive finite element methods
• Heat equation
• Stokes equations
• Navier-Stokes equations
• Maxwell equations

References

Lecture Notes will be distributed in class. But the following books are good references for reading:

• Elman.H, Silvester.D, and Wathen.A. Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers with Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics. 2005
• S. Larsson and V. Thomee. Partial Differential Equations with Numerical Methods, Springer, 2003.

Grading

Your course grade will be determined by your cumulative average at the end of the term:

• 40% Homework
• 40% Matlab projects
• 20% Final Exam/Project