CEE 786 / CIS 724 Syllabus (Spring 2006)

Jan 25 - Jan 27 Boundary value problems; weak form; boundary conditions
Feb 1 - Feb 3 Finite element approximation; isoparametric elements; quadrature
Feb 8 - Feb 10 Geometry and mesh generation
Feb 15 - Feb 17 Parabolic and hyperbolic problems; time-stepping
Feb 22 - Feb 24 Linear and nonlinear solid mechanics
Mar 1 - Mar 3 Newton's method and continuation
Mar 8 - Mar 10 Eigenvalue problems
Mar 15 - Mar 17 A priori and posteriori error estimators; adaptivity
Mar 22 - Mar 24 (Spring break)
Mar 29 - Mar 31 Lagrangian, Eulerian and ALE methods
Apr 5 - Apr 7 Fluid flow; convection-diffusion; finite volume methods
Apr 12 - Apr 14 Direct and iterative equation solving
Apr 19 - Apr 21 Parallel computing
Apr 26 - Apr 28 Feap, PETSc, PSPASES and Metis libraries
May 3 - May 5 Constrained problems
Katerina D. Papoulia, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Stephen A. Vavasis, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, vavasis@cs.cornell.edu

handed out 1/23/06