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Variational Methods

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 470-4114/02
Abbreviation VM
Course title Variational Methods
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Jiří Bouchala, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lebesgue Integral.
Lebesgue Spaces.
Distributions.

Sobolev Spaces.
Trace Theorem.

Weak Solutions of Boundary Value Problems.
Lax Milgram Theorem.
Existence and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions.
Regularity of Weak Solution.

Energy Functional.
Ritz and Galerkin Methods.

Literature

M. Renardy, R. C. Rogers: An introduction to partial differential equations, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993.
E. Zeidler: Applied Functional Analysis, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995.

Advised literature

E. Zeidler: Applied Functional Analysis, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995.