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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Mathematical Modelling and FEM

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 470-8743/01
Abbreviation MMMKP
Course title Mathematical Modelling and FEM
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Radim Blaheta, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Mathematical modeling. Purpose and general principles of modeling. Benefits
mathematical modeling. Proper use of mathematical models.
Differential formulation of mathematical models. One-dimensional heat conduction problem and its mathematical formulation. Generalizing the model. The input linearity,
existence and uniqueness of solutions. Discrete input data. One-dimensional task
flexibility and other models. Multivariate models.
Variational formulation of boundary problems. Weak formulation of boundary problems and its relationship to the classical solutions. Energy and energy functional formulation.
Coercivity and boundedness. Uniqueness, continuous dependence of solutions
input data. Existence and smoothness of the solution.
Ritz - Galerkin (RG) method. RG method. Konenčných element method (FEM)
as a special case of the RG method. History MLP.
Algorithm finite element method. Assembling the stiffness matrix and vector
load. Taking into account the boundary conditions. Numerical solution of linear systems algebraic equations. Different types of finite elements.
The accuracy of finite element solutions. Priori estimate of the discretization error.
Convergence, h-and p-version FEM. Posteriori estimates. Network design for MLP
adaptive technology and optimal network.
FEM software and its use for MM. Preprocessing and postprocessing. Commercial
software systems. Solutions particularly difficult and special problems. Principles
Mathematical modeling using FEM.

Literature

- GROSSMANN, Christian a ROOS, Hans-Görg. Numerical treatment of partial differential equations. Přeložil Martin STYNES. Universitext. Berlin: Springer, c2007. ISBN 978-3-540-71582-5.

Advised literature

- QUARTERONI, Alfio a VALLI, Alberto. Numerical approximation of partial differential equations. Springer series in computational mathematics, 23. Berlin: Springer, c2008. ISBN 978-3-540-85267-4.