Luca Formaggia, Fausto Saleri, Alessandro Veneziani

Solving Numerical PDEs: Problems, Applications, Exercises (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book stems from the long standing teaching experience of the authors in the courses on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations given to undergraduate and graduate students of Politecnico di Milano (Italy), EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), University of Bergamo (Italy) and Emory University (Atlanta, USA). It aims at introducing students to the numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). One of the difficulties of this subject is to identify the right trade-off between theoretical concepts and their actual use in practice. With this collection of examples and exercises we try to address this issue by illustrating "academic" examples which focus on basic concepts of Numerical Analysis as well as problems derived from practical application which the student is encouraged to formalize in terms of PDEs, analyze and solve. The latter examples are derived from the experience of the authors in research project developed in collaboration with scientists of different fields (biology, medicine, etc.) and industry. We wanted this book to be useful both to readers more interested in the theoretical aspects and those more concerned with the numerical implementation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Italia
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788847024120
• Artikelnr.: 37411223

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Basic Material. 1 Some fundamental tools. 1.1 Hilbert spaces. 1.2 Distributions. 1.3 The spaces Lp and Hs. 1.4 Sequences in lp. 1.5 Important inequalities. 1.6 Brief overview of matrix algebra. 2 Fundamentals of finite elements and finite differences. 2.1 The one dimensional case: approximation by piecewise polynomials. 2.2 Interpolation in higher dimension using finite elements. 2.2.1 Geometric preliminary definitions. 2.2.2 The finite element. 2.2.3 Parametric Finite Elements. 2.2.4 Function approximation by finite elements. 2.3 The method of finite differences. 2.3.1 Difference quotients in dimension one. Part II Stationary Problems. 3 Galerkin-finite element method for elliptic problems. 3.1 Approximation of 1D elliptic problems. 3.1.1 Finite differences in 1D. 3.2 Elliptic problems in 2D. 3.3 Domain decomposition methods for 1D elliptic problems. 3.3.1 Overlapping methods. 3.3.2 Non-overlapping methods. 4 Advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) problems. 4.1 Preliminary problems. 4.2 Advection dominated problems. 4.3 Reaction dominated problems. Part III Time dependent problems. 5 Equations of parabolic type. 5.1 Finite difference time discretization. 5.2 Finite element time discretization. 6 Equations of hyperbolic type. 6.1 Scalar advection-reaction problems. 6.2 Systems of linear hyperbolic equations of order one. 7 Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids. 7.1 Steady problems. 7.2 Unsteady problems. Part IV Appendices. A The treatment of sparse matrices. A.1 Storing techniques for sparse matrices. A.1.1 The COO format. A.1.2 The skyline format. A.1.3 The CSR format. A.1.4 The CSC format. A.1.5 The MSR format. A.2 Imposing essential boundary conditions. A.2.1 Elimination of essential degrees of freedom. A.2.2 Penalization technique. A.2.3 “Diagonalization” technique. A.2.4 Essential conditions in a vectorial problem. B Who’swho.

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Part I Basic Material. 1 Some fundamental tools. 2 Fundamentals of finite elements and finite differences. Part II Stationary Problems. 3 Galerkin-finite element method for elliptic problems. 4 Advection-diffusion-reaction (ADR) problems. Part III Time dependent problems. 5 Equations of parabolic type. 6 Equations of hyperbolic type. 7 Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids. Part IV Appendices. A The treatment of sparse matrices. B Who's who.