Assignment 5
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Finite Differences in ODEs, Introduction to PDEs
Reading assignment and Matlab exercises - Read the following documents:
On finite differences and ordinary differential equations - [Read these documents and try these exercises on your own]
- Numerical solution to ordinary differential equations - Scripts (includes discussion on finite differences, explicit and implicit methods)
- Water quality in a lake - ( based on Chapter 3 in Vreugdenhil, C.B., 1989, Computational Hydraulics - An Introduction, Springer-Verlag, Berlin)
- Documentation and Scripts for Chapter 3 (CompHydExI) - Numerical solutions
On Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) - [Read these documents and try these exercises on your own]
- Read Partial Differential Equations, pages 501 through 526, in Hoffman, J.D., 2001, Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists
- Introduction to Partial Differential Equations -- pdf file with definitions and examples of analytical solutions - Scripts
On Method of Characteristics - [Read these documents and try these exercises on your own]
- Read section III.3, pp. 504 - 511, in Hoffman, J.D., 2001, Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists
- Read pages 17-19, and 26-27 in Vreugdenhil, C.B., 1989, Computational Hydraulics
- Hydraulic transients - method of characteristics - pdf file
Additional reading materials - optional reading
- Read Moler's book Ch. 11 - Partial Differential Equations (optional reading)
Problems to solve
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