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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

5898 (v.3) Numerical Analysis 502

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Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Finite difference methods for PDEs - derivative approximation, SOR and ADI methods, explicit and implicit methods. Finite element methods for PDEs - variational statements, finite element formulation of elliptic and time-dependent problems, two-dimensional element calculations, solution of sparce systems of linear equations (sparse matrix methods and conjugate gradient method) and finite element applications.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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