EGM 6422

ADVANCED ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Florida International University, Mechanical Engineering Department

Fall, 2002

 

Syllabus

 

INSTRUCTOR:                Wei-Yu Bao, Room: CEAS 3420, Phone: 305.724.1098, Email: baow@fiu.edu

CLASSROOM:                EAS 3350

SCHEDULE:                17:40 – 18:55 T R               

TEXT BOOK:        Applied Numerical Analysis, by Curtis F. Gerald and Patrick O. Wheatley, ISBN: 0-201-87072-X

 

TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE:

Week of                 Contents

Aug 29                   Introduction

Sep 3                      Solving Nonlinear Equations

Sep 10                    Solving Sets of Equations

Sep 17                    Interpolation and Curve Fitting

Sep 24                    Numerical Differentiation

Oct 1                       Numerical Integration

Oct 8                       Approximation of Functions

Oct 15                     Midterm Exam, Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations

Oct 22                     Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations

Oct 29                     Boundary-Value Problems

Nov 5                     Ellipse-type Partial Differential Equations

Nov 12                   Parabolic-type Partial Differential Equations

Nov 19                   Hyperbolic-type Partial Differential Equations

Nov 26                   Special Topic: Advanced Algorithms

Dec 3                      Review

 

GRADING:           

Homework and Projects  30%

Midterm Exam                       30%

Final Exam                             40%