Zheng Fang : A brief introduction to some numerical methods in solving ODEs and PDEs

Posted by Karen Zaya , part of the Graduate Student Colloquium.

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Nov. 25, 2013, 4:30 p.m.

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SEO 636

Abstract

We introduce some numerical approximation to the solution of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Specifically, the Euler's method and Runge-Kutta method from finite difference, and spectral methods using discrete Fourier basis. Some constraints on applying these methods would also be discussed using linear stiffness equation as an example.