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Courses - Fall 2025
AMSC
Applied Mathematics & Scientific Computation Department Site
AMSC715
Numerical Methods for Evolution Partial Differential Equations
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Credit only granted for: AMSC612 or AMSC715.
Formerly: AMSC612.
Additional information: Students must have compelted one graduate level course in partial differential equations or one graduate level course in numerical analysis or scientific computing.
Topics include: Heat and wave equations: maximum principle, energy methods and Sobolev spaces, finite difference and finite element methods, von Neumann analysis, stability and error estimates;Linear first order PDEs: upwinding and monotone schemes, finite difference, finite volume, and discontinuous Galerkin methods; Nonlinear conservation laws: weak solutions and entropy conditions,monotone methods.