Course Details
Numerical methods for the variational problems
Academic Year 2025/26
DAB036 course is part of 23 study plans
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Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
10 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Functional and its Euler equation, the simlest problem of calculus of variations.
- 2. Concrete examples of functionals and related Euler equations. Elementary solutions.
- 3. Derivation of an elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2, the problems of heat conduction and distribution of polution.
- 4. Discretization of the elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2 by the standard finite difference method, stability of numerical solutions.
- 5. Variational (weak) and minimization formulation of the elliptic problem for the elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2.
- 6. The Ritz and Galerkin methods.
- 7. Discretization of the elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2 by the finite element method.
- 8. Discretization of the variational formulation of the elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2 by the finite element method.
- 9. Discretization of the minimization formulation of the elliptic problem for ODE of degree 2 by the finite element method.
- 10. Discretization of the variational formulation of the elliptic problem for PDE of degree 2 by the finite element method.
- 11. Variational formulation and the finite element method for the linear elasticity problem.
- 12. Navier-Stokes equations and their numerical solution by the particle method.
- 13. A mathematical model of simultaneous distribution of moisture and heat in porous materials, discretizations.