wisL602, Fall 2025
Lecturer:
Dr. P.A. Zegeling, room 513, Math. Building (= HF-Building), Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht (030-2533720).
Venue:
Universiteit Utrecht , Princetonplein 5, Utrecht Buys Ballotgebouw : room BBG005 (except in Week 41 ==> room DDW 1.36: David de Wiedgebouw)
Time:
14:00-15:45 theory/lectures
16:00-16:45 exercises/tutorial
Teaching assistant:
Jelle van der Voort
==> For questions about the weekly exercises you could also contact Jelle via: numpde2025ATgmail.com.
Literature:
"LECTURE NOTES" and extra info (check the box "EXTRA MATERIAL"). The weekly schedule below will be updated weekly.
-- The book "Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations" by Randall J. LeVeque, 2007 could be very helpful. You can find the pdf file here.
Additional useful references/books that are closely related to the topics of the course are:
-- W. Hundsdorfer and J.G. Verwer (Numerical Solution of Time-Dependent Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations; Springer 2003)
-- A. Tveito and R. Winther (Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, a Computational Approach; Springer 1998)
-- J.C. Strikwerda (Finite Difference Schemes and Partial Differential Equations; SIAM 2009)
-- J.W. Thomas (Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Finite Difference Methods; Springer 1998).
DATE | LECTURES | LECTURE NOTES | EXERCISES | EXTRA MATERIAL |
Wednesday September 10 | Lecture 1: intro PDEs (well-posedness, classification, Fourier method, method of characteristics, applications) | Lecture notes 1 | Exercises 1 | Extra file for Lecture 1 |
Wednesday September 17 | Lecture 2: finite difference matrices | Lecture notes 2 | Exercises 2 | Extra file for Lecture 2 |
Wednesday September 24 | Lecture 3: time-integration and the method-of-lines | Lecture notes 3 | Exercises 3 | Extra file for Lecture 3 |
Wednesday October 1 | ==> Tutorial on assignment C1A and exercises from Lectures 1-3 | Assignment C1A (5% of FG). | ||
Wednesday October 8 | Lecture 4: the heat equation | Lecture notes 4 | Exercises 4 | Extra file for Lecture 4 |
Wednesday October 15 | Lecture 5: the advection equation | Lecture notes 5 | Exercises 5 DEADLINE for C1A: Wednesday October 15 23:59 (via e-mail as ONE pdf file to: numpde2025ATgmail.com). |
Extra file for Lecture 5 |
Wednesday October 22 | Lecture 6: the wave equation and nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs | Lecture notes 6 | Exercises 6 | Extra file for Lecture 6 |
Wednesday October 29 | ==> Tutorial on assignment C1B and exercises from Lectures 4-6 | Assignment C1B (10% of FG). | ||
Wednesday November 5 | Lecture 7: TBA | |||
Wednesday November 12 | Lecture 8: TBA | |||
Wednesday November 19 | ==> Tutorial on assignment C2A and exercises from Lectures 7-8 | DEADLINE for C1B: Wednesday November 19 23:59 (via e-mail as ONE pdf file to: numpde2025ATgmail.com). Assignment C2A (10% of FG). |
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Wednesday November 26 | Lecture 9: TBA | |||
Wednesday December 3 | Lecture 10: TBA | |||
Wednesday December 10 | Lecture 11: *** (guest lecturer: ***) | Assignment C2B (5% of FG). | ||
Wednesday December 17 | TBA |