Course Catalog - 2007-2008

     

CAAM 552 - PART'L DIFFERENT'L EQUATIONS I

Long Title: PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Department: *Computational & Applied Math*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CAAM 402 AND CAAM 452
Description: Analysis of boundary and initial value problems. Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation, variational formulation, Rayleigh-Ritz principle, Sobolev spaces, weak solutions, interior and boundary regularity, convergence of the finite element method, heat equation and the Gaussian kernel, maximum principle, stability, consistency, and convergence of numerical methods.