Text: Text is Granville Sewell's "The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations" (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). MATLAB is required (alternatively, programs can be written in FORTRAN), student version can be obtained from The MathWorks

Course Content: Introduction to finite difference and finite element methods for solving partial differential equations; stability and convergence of methods and error bounds.

Prerequisites: According to the A&M catalog, prerequisites are: Math 417 or 609 or equivalent. However, the distance ed sections will be taught with the understanding that students may not have taken a general numerical analysis class, only calculus III and a linear/matrix algebra course are essential.

Instructor: Granville Sewell

Office: Bell Hall 200, UTEP

Phone: 915-747-6762

FAX: 915-747-6502

TAMU email: sewell@neo.tamu.edu

UTEP email: sewell@math.utep.edu

Grading Policy:

• Homework assignments: 100% of your grade. Some homeworks will involve MATLAB (or FORTRAN) programming. You are NOT to consult with other students on these homeworks (though you can consult with me).

Submitting Homework

Homeworks are to be received by midnight A&M time on the due date, by FAX (915-747-6502) or (preferably) by e-mail (PDF, Word or PS file to sewell@neo.tamu.edu; PDF file if possible). For problems requiring MATLAB, don't send me your MATLAB *.m files separately, I'm not planning to test them myself, just include a listing of the *.m files (or *.f files) and their output (you can use "diary" to save output in MATLAB). The fewer files the better, if you send by e-mail.

Q-drop deadline is April 6

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