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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 18.085 (Fall 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • Computational Science and Engineering I 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Mathematics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Gilbert Strang 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 18.085 Computational Science and Engineering I



    Fall 2007




    Course Highlights




    18.085 Computational Science and Engineering I



    Fall 2007


    A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB.
    This image comes from "A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB®" submitted to SIAM Review. The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary. (Image courtesy of Per-Olof Persson; the code and the paper are available on the Web.)


    Course Description


    This course provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covered are: differential equations of equilibrium; Laplace's equation and potential flow; boundary-value problems; minimum principles and calculus of variations; Fourier series; discrete Fourier transform; convolution; and applications.

    Note: This course was previously called "Mathematical Methods for Engineers I".



    Special Features




    Technical Requirements


    Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm and .m.


    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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