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34897 - Numerical Methods for Engineering M

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Fiorella Sgallari
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: MAT/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 9205)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronic Engineering (cod. 0934)

Learning outcomes

Note: This course is taken from the Second-cycle Degree in Ingegneria Elettronica, taught in Italian.

Course contents

Iterative methods for solving large linear systems

Numerical solution of large nonlinear systems

Polynomial interpolation

Numerical integration

Numerical solution of Partial differential Equations: Finite Difference-Finite Elements (Elliptic and Parabolic Eqns).

Readings/Bibliography

Some useful course materials for this course can be found at the web page http://people.ciram.unibo.it/~sgallari at the link Teaching.

You can find the material for this course in many books on Numerical Analysis such as

  1. A. Quarteroni, Numerical Models for Differential Problems. Springer, 2009.
  2. A. Quarteroni, R. Sacco and F. Saleri, Matematica Numerica, Third Ed., Springer-Verlag Italia, 2008 .
  3. L. FORMAGGIA, F. SALERI, A. VENEZIANI APPLICAZIONI ED ESERCIZI DI MODELLISTICA NUMERICA PER PROBLEMI DIFFERENZIALI.  SPRINGER, COLLANA:UNITEXT-GIUGNO 2006

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, laboratory activities in Matlab.

Assessment methods

Assessment is based on assignments of project works or oral exams.

Teaching tools

The course involves practical work based on computational tools such as Matlab and Freefem.

Links to further information

http://www.dm.unibo.it/~sgallari/

Office hours

See the website of Fiorella Sgallari