Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 18.085 (Fall 2007) 
• Course Title:
• Computational Science and Engineering I 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Mathematics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Gilbert Strang 
• Course Introduction:
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  18.085 Computational Science and Engineering I
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2007

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  
  
  18.085 Computational Science and Engineering I
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2007

  
  
  

  

  This image comes from "A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB®" submitted to SIAM Review. The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary. (Image courtesy of Per-Olof Persson; the code and the paper are available on the Web.)

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covered are: differential equations of equilibrium; Laplace's equation and potential flow; boundary-value problems; minimum principles and calculus of variations; Fourier series; discrete Fourier transform; convolution; and applications.

  Note: This course was previously called "Mathematical Methods for Engineers I".

  
  
  

  Special Features

  
  
  

  • Complete video lectures

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm and .m.

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.