Assignment 8

Laplace equation - Potential Flow - Groundwater Flow

Reading assignment and Matlab exercises - Read the following documents:

On Laplace's Equation Solution - [Read these documents and try these exercises on your own]

1. Read the following documents:
• Laplace equation - temperature distribution in solids (pdf file) - Click here to download scripts

On Potential Flow Solutions - [Read these documents and try these exercises on your own]

1. Read the following chapters in Vreugdenhil, C.B., 1989
• Ch. 19 - Potential Flow
• Ch. 20 - Finite-Difference Method for Potential Flow
• Additional notes on Example 1 (*) - details of solution implementation - - Scripts for Example 1 (In page 146)
• Additional notes on Example 2 (*) - details of solution implementation - - Scripts for Example 2 (In pages 147-149)
• Groundwater application:
• Notes on groundwater solution (*) - Scripts for Groundwater example
2. Potential Flow in Rectangular Domains - pdf file (complements Chapters 19-20 in Vreugdenhill's book)
3. Optional reading
• Ch. 21 - Finite-Element Method (optional reading) - Read the part related to groundwater

Problems to solve

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