2.096/6.336/16.910 Introduction to Numerical Simulation
Fall 2015
Instructor: Luca Daniel
TAs: Narmada K Herath, Bichoy Waguih Bahr
Lecture: MW1-2.30 (32-141)
Information:
This course 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, chemical engineering, biology, and materials science. Topics include mathematical formulations (techniques for automatic assembly of mathematical problems from physics' principles); sparse, direct and iterative solution techniques for linear systems; Newton and Homotopy methods for nonlinear problems; discretization methods for ordinary, time-periodic and partial differential equations; accelerated methods for integral equations; techniques for automatic generation of compact dynamical system models and model order reduction
Announcements
Graded Psets
Hi Class,All the Psets have been graded, and the ones that were not picked up in class can be collected from Chadwick Collins in 36-807.
Announced on 09 December 2015 10:14 p.m. by Narmada K Herath
No office hours today
Hi Class,As your projects work came to conclusion today, there will be no more office hours. If you want to further discuss any topic, feel free to contact us by email.
Bichoy and Narmada
Announced on 07 December 2015 10:40 a.m. by Bichoy Waguih Bahr
Hint about memory estimation in MATLAB
Hi Class,We got lots of questions in office hours about how to estimate the memory usage in MATLAB. The best way is to use the MATLAB profiler as follows:
profile -memory on
% Run your code here
profreport
Announced on 30 November 2015 7:23 p.m. by Bichoy Waguih Bahr
Pset 6 posted
Hi Class,Pset 6 has been posted on Stellar.
It is due on Wednesday 2nd December. Please remember to use
the
submission template (even as a cover page to your
hand-written
report).
Announced on 21 November 2015 11:40 a.m. by Narmada K Herath
PSet 5 - Problem 1 - Part (3)
Hi Class,For PSet 5 - Problem 1 - Part (3), you may plot the temperature distribution at times (0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1 and 3) instead of (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The solution will reach a steady state before 1 so the suggested plotting in the problem will not show the dynamical change of the distribution.
-- Thanks to Florian Feppon for bringing that up.
Announced on 05 November 2015 7:11 p.m. by Bichoy Waguih Bahr
