School of Mathematics and Computing Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborg University


The dayly course progress on TMA372/MAN660, Partial Differential equations for TM, E3, GU, ..., Fall vt 2001


OBS! the room for exercise on Monday 3/12, 15-17 is: MD6 in Mathematcal Center, and on Monday 10/12 EL43 in Electrical Engineering building.
The
$\circ$ Assignment 1a (ps file), Assignment 1a (pdf file), (handed in no later than week4).

$\circ$ An example note-book, Övningsexemple i PDE1, TM (ps file), and (pdf file), consisting of problems from some previous exams and solutions to the Lösningar för udda uppgifter i Övningsexemple i PDE1 TM, (ps file), and (pdf file), odd problems in Övningsexemple i PDE1, are now available both here and through the cousre homepage as well.




Here is the course lecture diary so far:


10/10; Chap. 6 in CDE: I lectured through the corresponding hand out for chapter 6, motivating for the use of quadrature rule (chapter 5) and for solving linear system of equations.
2/11; Chap. 5: I derived some interpolation estimates and introduced the Cardinal functions and quarature rule, cf; handouts.
6/11; Chap. 5 and 7: Proved a general quadrature rule for polynomials. Also introduced the interative methods (Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel) for solving linear system of equations, cf; handouts.
6/11; Chap. 8: I have introduced the finite element method for a 1D stationary heat equation: Boundary value problem (BVP), have proved that variational formulation (VF), boundary value problem, and a minimization problem (MP) are equivalent. We derived also an a priori error estimate for the finite element method in energy norm.
13/11; Chap. 8 and 9: Chapter 8: Proof of an a posteriori error estimate for the finite element method. Chapter 9: Introduced a initial value problem (IVP). Fundamental solution and stability estimates for IVP. Continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods; in particular cG(1) and dG(0) for IVP.
16/11; Chap. 9: Detailed cG(1) and dG(0) aposteriori and a priori error analysis for the IVP.
20/11; Chap. 9: Continuation of the detailed cG(1) and dG(0) aposteriori and a priori error analysis for the IVP.
23/11; Chap. 21: Poincare' inequality, Riesz representation theorem.
27/11; Chap. 21 and 14: Chapter 21: Lax-Milgram theorem. Chapter 14: Green's formula.
30/11; Chap. 14 and 15: Chapter 14: ended, Chapter 15: Stability and a priori error analysis for the Poisson's equation.
4/12; Chap. 15 and 16: Chapter 15: completeing the detailed theory of a priori estimates, a posteriori error estimates in a one space dimensional case. Chapter 16: Stability estimates for multidimensional heat equation.
7/12; Chap. 16: cG(1) a posteriori error analysis for the heat equation and for a population model.
11/12; Chap. 17 and 18: Chapter 17: the multidimensional wave equation, conservation of energy. A space-time cG(1) algorithm for the wave equation in one space dimension (system and matrix forms). Chapter 18: Convection-diffusion equation, a traffic flow, the Navier-Stokes equations.
14/12: We solved some problems from previous exams.





The final exam will contain a theory question from the following list:

Theorem 8.1; a priori error estimate for the 2 point boundary value problems,

Theorem 8.2; a posteriori error estimate for the 2 point boundary value problems,

Lemma 9.1; stability estimates for the dual of a general initial value problem,

Theorem 9.2; a posteriori error estimates for cG(1), for a general initial value problem,

Theorem 9.3; a posteriori error estimates for dG(0), for a general initial value problem,

Theorem 9.4; a priori error estimates for dG(0), for a general initial value problem,

Theorem 21.1; the Lax-Milgram Theorem,

Theorem 14.1; piecewise linear polynomial interpolation in 2D (give the proof only in the 1D case as we did in class for chapter 5).

Theorem 15.4; a posteriori error estimates for the Poisson's equation,





M. Asadzadeh
Dec. 14, 2001