Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
MAT/08 (NUMERICAL ANALYSIS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Course
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (27/09/2021 - 21/01/2022)
Lesson hours
112 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Students are required to be familiar with basic concepts of Linear Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and mathematical Analysis.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be capable of applying the basic numerical methods for scientific computing, as well as skilled in programming in Matlab.
Course contents
- Introduction to scientific computing
- Function zero finding
- Polynomial interpolation and least square methods
- Numerical quadrature
- Numerical linear algebra, eigenproblems, direct and iterative methods for linear systems
- Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
Teaching methods
1. Frontal lectures to illustrate the definition and properties of the numerical methods
2. Matlab sessions for the implementation of the numerical methods
Reccomended or required readings
Quarteroni, Alfio, Saleri, F., Gervasio, Paola, "Calcolo Scientifico, Esercizi e problemi risolti con MATLAB e Octave", Springer, 2016
Assessment methods
Final written exam; compulsory oral examination if the evaluation of the written part is lower than 24 (and greater than 18), otherwise the oral exam is up to the student.
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