Instructor: Allan Struthers Office: Fisher 212 Phone: 487-3541 e-mail: struther@mtu.edu Web Site: http://www.mathlab.mtu.edu/~struther/Courses/4620/ My schedule: https://huskymail.mtu.edu/home/struther@mtu.edu/Calendar.html Meeting 2-3pm M/W/F Fisher 131 Fisher 
- Text:
- Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations by the Finite Element Method by Claes Johnson
ISBN: 978-0486469003
- Objectives:
- This course is intended to introduce numerical methods for partial differential equations. This semester we will focus on the finite element method. The book is inexpensive and we will be working directly from it. The text provides an extended introduction to the finite element method with just the right amount of the underlying math. We will cover as much of the material in the text as possible. Substantial computer exercises will be required in this class. No particular computer language is required. Specifically, programs can be written in C, C++, Fortran, Fortran 90, Mathematica, Maple, or Matlab. There may be some students in the class with little programming experience. I will run a "Programming Boot Camp" for these students in the second week of the course.
- HW exams etc.: There will be frequent HW (all equally weighted and mostly computational) and a computational final project that will count as several (we will discuss this in class on the first day) HW assignments.
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