Overview

This book contains a modern introduction to the use of finite difference and finite element methods for the computer solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. After a review of direct methods for the solution of linear systems, with emphasis on the special features of the linear systems that arise when differential equations are solved, the balance of the content introduces, analyzes and implements, using FORTRAN90 and MATLAB programs, the more commonly used finite difference and finite element methods for solving a variety of problems, including both initial value and boundary value problems.

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...a nice introduction to the topic... would serve nicely as test in an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level class in numerical analysis. (MAA Reviews, March 14, 2006)

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GRANVILLE SEWELL, PHD, is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the principal developer of PDE2D, a general-purpose partial differential equation solver. Dr. Sewell has written three books and published more than fifty articles on numerical methods and applications.

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