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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MATH 577 - Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations


(3 units)

Prerequisite: MATH 423  or MATH 576  or consent of instructor.
Finite difference methods solving hyperbolic, parabolic, elliptic PDE’S; accuracy, convergence, and stability analysis. Selected initial-value boundary-value problems, characteristics, domain of dependence, matrix and von Neumann’s methods of stability analysis. Solutions of large sparse linear systems. Finite element method.

Both grading options. (Lecture 3 hrs.)