HAX604X - Numerical analysis of differential equations
3rd year B.Sc, Montpellier Faculty of Sciences, 2025
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Contents
1) Introduction to Cauchy problems for ordinary differential equations
- Numerical methods for solving differential equations
- One-step methods: Euler, Runge-Kutta, error analysis, convergence
- Multistep methods: Adams, BDF, stability considerations
- Stiff problems and stability supplements
2) Introduction to partial differential equations
- First-order linear PDEs: constant coefficients, characteristics, conservation laws
- Finite difference methods: discretization principles, upwinding, stability, and other schemes
- Diffusion equations: heat equation, convolution solution, Fourier series, finite difference discretization
- Higher dimensions: Poisson equation