Lectures on the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations.

Abstract

Contents: Adapting Courant-Friedrichs-Levy to the 1980's; Parametrization Methods for Approximation of Solutions of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems; Two Mixed Finite Element Methods for the Simply Supported Plat Problem; Approximation of Non-linear Problems; Two-dimensional Approximations of Three-dimensional Models in Nonlinear Plate Theory; Changing Meshes in Time-dependent Problems; Alternating-direction Galerkin Methods for Parabolic Hyperbolic and Sobolev Partial Differential Equations; Galerkin Methods for Miscible Displacement Problems with Point Sources and Sinks-Unit Mobility Ratio Case; Overtaking of Shock Waves in Steady Two-dimensional Supersonic Flows; Homogenization, Convex Analysis, and the Geometry Optimization of Engineering Structures; Stability and Error Bounds for a Fractional Step Scheme to Compute Weak Solutions of the Nonlinear Waterhammer Problem; Schauder Estimates for Finite Element Approximations of Second Order Elliptic Boundary Value Problems; Analysis of Some Contact Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity; Single Step Methods for Linear Differential Equations in Banach Spaces; The Quasi-optimality in the Maximum Norm of the H1 Projection into Piecewise Linear Functions in the Plane: a Complete Proof (Second lecture); A Brief Survey of Parabolic Smoothing and How It Affects a Numerical Solution: Finite Differences and Finite Elements (Third lecture); Integral Equation Methods for Mixed Boundary Value Problems (Second lecture).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA110966

Entities

People

  • Ivo Babuška
  • J. Osborn
  • T. -p. Liu

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Cauchy Problem
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Formulas (Mathematics)
  • Integral Equations
  • Mechanics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Smoothing (Mathematics)
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Space