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: Math 417 or 609 or equivalent.

Instructor: Granville Sewell

Office: Bell Hall 200, UTEP

TAMU email: sewell@neo.tamu.edu (preferred)

UTEP email: sewell@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).

Note: This does not necessarily mean 90% is "required" for an A, only that 90% "guarantees" it.

Submitting Homework

Homeworks are to be received by midnight Texas A&M time on the due date, by e-mail (PDF or Word file to sewell@neo.tamu.edu; hand written and scanned is ok). 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. Suggested name for your first homework file would be [your last name]-hw1.[pdf,doc,docx], but of course this isn't essential.

I will print, mark, scan and return homeworks to you, within a few days of the due date.

Q-drop deadline is July 22

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