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Instructor: Zhilin Li, SAS 3148, 515-3210 T TH 4:30-5:45 pm,

Office Hours: M: 2:00-2:50 PM, W: 10:00-10:50 AM or by appointment

Course Outline

Due to the Corona virus pandemic, public health measures have been implemented across campus. Students should stay current with these practices and expectations through the Protect the Pack website (https://www.ncsu.edu/coronavirus/).

Classes recording and Notes will be available on Google drive and/or Moodle.

Homework Guidlines


HW#1	HW#2	HW#3
HW#4	HW#5	Lab

Notes and Text

Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations– An Introduction to Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods under contract by Cambridge (avilable online at NCSU library)

Intro Stokes Equations and L^{\infinity} Convergence
Z. Li's 1D Paper

PDE_Tool_Lab PDE_Tool_Manual PDE ToolBox Tutorial You tube PDE ToolBox online

Bi-linear and linear forms of a complicated example.

Elliptic Operator

Matlab Code


drive.m fem1d.m hat1.m int_hat1_f.m soln.m f.m fem_soln.m hat2.m int_hat2	aplybc.m datain.m drchltb.m fem1d.m get mat.m setint.m uxeact.m assemb.m drchlta.m elem.m formkf.m propset.m shape.m
quadratic_global.m fem_quad.m cubic_h2_all_4.m fem_cubic_h2.m cubic_h2_one_global.m	2D using mesh from Matlab PDE Tool : 2D.tar
2D Cartesian Uniform mesh: Uniform.tar drive_ex2.m assemb.m f.m Readme	2D Glabal.m

Numerical quadrature in 2D: Some 2D quadrature tables Reading 1, Reading 2, Matlab Table of FE Spaces (Web; .pdf file)

FEM on the WEB:

Mesh Generation & Grid Generation on the Web

Finite element method from Wikipedia

Gmsh: A three-dimensional finite element mesh generator

Computer Help Desk and Packages

Calendar

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H: Holiday; R: Review Day (No class); L: Last day of instruction.

Disability services:

Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities. In order to take advantage of available accommodations, students must register with Disability Services for Students at 1900 Student Health Center, Campus Box 7509, 515-7653. For more information on NC State's policy on working with students with disabilities, please see the Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities Regulation (REG02.20.1)