- Docente: Fiorella Sgallari
- Credits: 9
- SSD: MAT/08
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Fiorella Sgallari (Modulo 1) Margherita Porcelli (Modulo 2) Alberto Custodi (Modulo 3)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Civil Engineering (cod. 0930)
Learning outcomes
After the course the student has the knowledge of the most important computational tools in civil engineering, with particular reference to numerical methods for the solution of algebraic and differential systems.
Course contents
Introduce students to common numerical problems that arise in the sciences and the fundamental computational techniques for solving such problems.
Typical topics include the characteristics of floating-point arithmetic, error analysis, approximation of roots of equations, interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration,
solution of large linear and nonlinear systems, Singular Value Decomposition.
Readings/Bibliography
Some useful course materials for this course can be found at the web page
piattaforma iol https://iol.unibo.it/
You can find the material for this course in many books on Numerical Analysis such as
- A. QUARTERON, R. SACCO, F.SALERI MATEMATICA NUMERICA. SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA MILANO 2008
- C. D'Angelo, A. Quarteroni: Matematica Numerica Esercizi, Laboratori e Progetti, 1st Edition., 2010, Springer Italia. ISBN: 978-88-470-1639-2
Teaching methods
The course involves practical work based on computational tools such as Matlab.
Assessment methods
Assessment is based on assignments of project works and oral exams.
Teaching tools
Lectures, exercises, laboratory activities in Matlab and other softwares.
Office hours
See the website of Fiorella Sgallari
See the website of Margherita Porcelli
See the website of Alberto Custodi