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Evolving Schedule (topics arranged by "target week.")

Week

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Wednesday


Video: Numerical Simulation of a Tsunami.

1

Jan-16-2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 15th)
Jan-18-2018
First Meeting
[Notes #1]
Movies:

2

Jan-23-2018
Hyperbolic PDEs; Introduction
[Notes #2]
Movies: ";
Jan-25-2018
Convergence, Constistency and Stability; the CFL Condition
[Notes #3] [HW #1]
Movies:


Video: Visualization of solutions to the one-way wave equation using the FTCS, FTBS, Lax-Friedrichs, and Leapfrog schemes. The grid spacing is fixed at dx=0.05, and λ=0.9. [Generated in Python, using matplotlib; reencoded using ffmpeg.]

3

Jan-30-2018
Analysis of Finite Difference Schemes
[Notes #4]
Feb-01-2018
Order of Accuracy of Finite Difference Schemes
[Notes #5]
Movies:

4

Feb-06-2018
Stability of Lax-Wendroff and Crank-Nicolson; Boundary Conditions
[Notes #6] [HW#2]
[Thomas Algorithm]
Feb-08-2018
Stability for Multistep Schemes Leapfrog Scheme; General Multistep Schemes
[Notes #7]
Movies: [#1] [#2] [#3] [#4] [#5]
HW#1 Due (Friday)

5

Feb-13-2018
Stability for Multistep Schemes Schur and von Neumann Polynomials
[Notes #8]
Movies:
Feb-15-2018
Dissipation and Dispersion
[Notes #9]
Movies:

6

Feb-20-2018
Parabolic PDEs Overview — Exact Solutions and Boundary Conditions
[Notes #10]
Movies:
Feb-22-2018
Stability, Boundary Conditions, Convection-Diffusion, Variable Coefficients
[Notes #11]
Movies:

7

Feb-27-2018
Systems of PDEs in Higher Dimensions
[Notes #12] [HW #3]
Mar-01-2018
The Alternating Direction Implicit Method
[Notes #13]
Projects and Homework
[Projects, HW#4,5,6,7]

8

Mar-06-2018
Second Order Equations
[Notes #14]
Movies:
Mar-08-2018
Boundary Conditions; 2D and 3D
[Notes #15]
Movies:

9

Mar-13-2018
Analysis of Well-Posed and Stable Problems
[Notes #16]
Mar-15-2018
Convergence Estimates for Initial Value Problems
[Notes #17]

10

Mar-20-2018
Well-Posed and Stable Initial-Boundary Value Problems, Pt.1
[Notes #18]
Movies:
Mar-22-2018
Well-Posed and Stable Initial-Boundary Value Problems, Pt.2
[Notes #19]
Movies: [#1] [#2] [#3] [#4]

Mar-27-2018
Spring Break
Cesar Chavez Day (March 30th)
Mar-29-2018
Spring Break

11

Apr-03-2018
Elliptic PDEs and Difference Schemes
[Notes #20]
Apr-05-2018
Finite Difference Schemes for Elliptic Problems
[Notes #21]
Movies:

12

Apr-10-2018
Elliptic Problems: Iterative Schemes
[Notes #22]
Movies:
Apr-12-2018
Steepest Descent and Conjugate Gradient
[Notes #23]

Vortex Sheet/Dipole Simulations
[HOS-1996.pdf]
Movies:

13

Apr-17-2018
Spectral Methods, Pt.1
[Spectral #1]
Movies:
Reference: Spectral Methods in MATLAB
Apr-19-2018
Spectral Methods, Pt.2
[Spectral #2]

Presentation Scheduling: Slots arranged by random drawing ON THE DAY of presentation. Volunteer for bonus / penalty for skipping.


HW#5 Due (Friday)

14

Apr-24-2018
Spectral Methods, Pt.3
[Spectral #3]
Movies:
Apr-26-2018
Mimetic Methods / MTK Toolkit
[Mimetic #1 (new)]
[Mimetic #1 (old)]
[Mimetic #2 (old)]
[Mimetic #3 (old)]

Reference: Mimetic Discretization Methods / MTK

HW#6 Due (Friday)

15

May-01-2018 Project Presentations (12–15 min)
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May-03-2018
Project Presentations (12–15 min)
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HW#7 Due (Friday)

Finals

May-08-2018

Please verify that I have received all your homeworks (hard or soft copy), and project (code + movies + presentation; soft copy)
May-10-2018
Project Presentations (12–15 min)
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Unused Modules: The Finite Element Method

[FEM #1] Introduction
[FEM #2] The Finite Element Method #2
[FEM #3] Triangulation; Element Stiffness Matrix; Hilbert Spaces --- L2(D), H1(D), and H10(D); Geometric Interpretation
[FEM #4] Finite Element Spaces
[FEM #5] FEM: More Spaces, C1(D)
[FEM #6] FEM: Approximation Theory
[FEM #7] FEM: Regularity of the Exact Solution