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Essential Numerical Methods

Prof. Ian H. Hutchinson · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This half-semester course introduces computational methods for solving physical problems, especially in nuclear applications. The course covers ordinary and partial differential equations for particle orbit, and fluid, field, and particle conservation problems; their representation and solution by finite difference numerical approximations; iterative matrix inversion methods; stability, convergence, accuracy and statistics; and particle representations of Boltzmann’s equation and methods of solution such as Monte-Carlo and particle-in-cell techniques.

Lectures

Tutorial Videos

  1. Octave/MATLAB® for Beginners, Part 1: Starting from Scratch 7 min · Video
  2. Octave/MATLAB® for Beginners, Part 2: Fitting Data and Plotting 18 min · Video
  3. Octave/MATLAB® for Beginners, Part 3: Cleaning Up & Saving Plots 10 min · Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Ian H. Hutchinson
Term
Fall 2014
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Physics, Engineering
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Ian H. Hutchinson. Essential Numerical Methods. Fall 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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