NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS
cod. 1001072

Academic year 2016/17
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Analisi numerica (MAT/08)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in - - -

Learning objectives

The primary goal of this teaching course is to give a complete background of Numerical Mathematics, presenting in a balanced way both theoretical and algorithmic aspects, together with some applications. It has to be considered as the natural prosecution of the Numerical Analysis course held in previous years. At the end, students will know a large amount of basic numerical methods useful to go deeper inside this subject and in general to face different contexts of Applied Mathematics.

Prerequisites

Numerical Analysis

Course unit content

- Approximation of Functions and Data.

- Numerical Integration.

- Numerical linear algebra.

- Solution of Nonlinear Equations.

- Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations

- Numerical Solution of boundary value problems.

Full programme

- Approximation of Functions and Data. Trigonometric interpolation. Rational interpolation. Least-squares approximation: the continuous and the discrete cases.
- Numerical Integration. Orthogonal polynomials. Gaussian quadrature on bounded and unbounded intervals. Error estimates. Multiple integrals. Adaptive algorithms.
- Numerical linear algebra. Basic iterative methods. Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods. Richardson methods. Coniugate gradient method. GMRES and Bi_CGStab. Convergence results. Stop tests.
- Eigenvalue and eigenvector problem. Localization of eigenvalues. Stability analysis. The power method. The inverse power method. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix: Sturm technique. Householder transformations. Reduction of a general matrix to Hessemberg form. The LR and QR algorithms.
- Solution of Nonlinear Equations: Fixed-point methods.Convergence results. Stop tests. Newton’s method in several variables.
- Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations: Linear multistep methods for Cauchy problems. Order, convergence and stability analysis. Adams methods. Predictor-corrector methods.
- Boundary valure problems: shooting method, finite difference method, Galerkin method.

Bibliography

A.Quarteroni, R.Sacco, F.Saleri, Matematica Numerica, SPRINGER, (2008).

G.Naldi, L.Pareschi, G.Russo, Introduzione al Calcolo Scientifico, McGraw-Hill, (2001)

Teaching methods

During frontal lessons, the course topics will be analysed, underlying theoretical and algorithmic aspects. Various results obtained by the application of the presented numerical methods will be illustrated and discussed.

Assessment methods and criteria

Through the preparation of a work with a theorical introduction to the chosen numerical method for the approximation of the searched solution and the presentation of related numerical results, students will reach a good autonomy in facing the numerical solution of simple model problems. Results of the knowledge level reached by the students will be verified by an oral exam, where each of them will illustrate what done during the preparation of the above mentioned work given in advance, and will answer to some questions related to the course program.

Other information

During the teaching course, students are asked to resolve some theorical and practical exercises, with the help of computing machines and using Matlab programming language, already introduced in Numerical Analysis course in the previous years.