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2.096/6.336/16.910 Introduction to Numerical Simulation

Fall 2008

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Instructor: Luca Daniel

TAs: Brad Bond, Tarek Ali El Moselhy, Laura Proctor

Lecture: TR11.30-1 (10-250)
TA Office Hours: M 12-2pm; Th 2-4pm (36-713)

Information:

Introduction to Numerical Simulation is an introduction to computational techniques for the simulation of a large variety of engineering and physical systems. Applications are drawn from aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering, biology, and materials science. Topics include mathematical formulations; network problems; sparse direct and iterative matrix solution techniques; Newton methods for nonlinear problems; discretization methods for ordinary, time-periodic and partial differential equations, fast methods for partial differential and integral equations, techniques for dynamical system model reduction.

Announcements

Office hours Monday Nov 10

Office hours for Monday are cancelled because Brad is out of town and won't be back until Thursday.
If you need to meet before Thursday, contact one of the other TAs (Tarek or Laura).

Announced on 09 November 2008 8:07 p.m. by Brad Bond

Problem Set 4

Problem 1c -- Should be a 'plus' sign for the derivative term, not a 'minus'

Problem 4 -- It may be necessary to modify files other than just 'newton.m', 'loadNewton.m', and 'force.m'.

Announced on 25 October 2008 2:24 p.m. by Brad Bond

Lecture 12 - page 23

Please be alerted that there was a typo (actually, two) on page 23 of Lecture 12 which was fixed.

Announced on 21 October 2008 2:39 p.m. by Laura Proctor

Problem Set 2

Some hints / corrections / elaborations for PS2:

Problem 1
    - There is a typo in the lecture notes regarding the Jacobians for dfx/dy and dfy/dx, so be sure to derive the expressions yourself
    - Use epsilon = 0.5 N/m for all struts.

Problem 3
   - Assume all resistors have the same value
   - There are many ways to do this problem; You do not have to use the stamping procedure if you can find a more efficient way to construct the matrices

Problem 4
    - Given a matrix G, your procedure should be able to construct the inverse of G without performing any matrix multiplications and without creating any additional matrices for storage.

Announced on 25 September 2008 10:07 a.m. by Brad Bond

Email List

If you have not yet received any emails from the TAs, please send an email to bnbond@mit.edu asking to be added to the email list.

Announced on 09 September 2008 1:58 p.m. by Brad Bond

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