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Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations:
an Overview and Applications

  An e-learning course to study online in your own time and pace. Acquire a working knowledge in numerical methods using our unique problem-based learning environement with support and corrections from human teachers.  
  André Jaun
Associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology

Head of Quants / Risk Manager at Signet Management

Modules
1. Introduction
2. Finite differences
3. Finite elements
4. Fourier methods
5. Monte-Carlo methods
6. Lagrangian schemes
Register now for the Swedish
Netuniversity (02 Oct-15 Dec 06)


At your own time and pace
Read the syllabus and listen to video recordings. Edit applet parameters and develop your intuition with experiments.
Download standalone CD-ROM software to your computer.
Problem based learning
Submit your assignments for correction, discuss related topics in a user forum, create contacts in virtual worlds.


Study a variety of problems including the advection, diffusion, Burger, Korteweg-DeVries, the Maxwell and the Schrödinger equation.
Support and certification
This is the web edition of the course taught at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Guidelines:
  • Swedish residents. Register telling your COMPLETE PN to start studying now (2 pts). Fill-in an extra form to enrol for the second part with accreditation (Oct-Dec, 2 pts).
  • EU students. Register specifing your date of birth and a professor to contact. Start now or wait until you are officially accepted (6 ECTS).
    The course is sponsored by the Swedish government and is free of charge for students from European universities!

  • Teachers in 2005: A.Jaun(KTH) & L.Villard(EPFL)
    Teachers in 2003: A.Jaun(KTH) & L.Villard(EPFL)
    Teachers in 2001: A.Jaun(KTH) & T.Johnson, T.Hurtig, (KTH) & T.Rylander, (CTH) & L.Villard(EPFL)
    Teachers in 2000: A.Jaun(KTH) & J.Hedin, T.Johnson(KTH) & M.Persson(CTH) & L.Villard(EPFL)
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