ME 501B Seminar in Engineering Analysis

Larry Caretto   Spring 2009

Lecture Presentations

January 21 -- Introduction/Eigenfunction Expansions

January 26 -- Fourier Series

January 28 -- Diffusion equation

February 2 -- More diffusion equation solutions

February 4 -- Radial diffusion equation

February 9 -- Laplace's equation

February 11 -- Laplace equation solutions

February 16 -- Laplace equation in a cylinder

February 18 -- Laplace's equation, vectors and complex variables

February 23 -- End of Laplace's equation and start of the wave equation

February 25 -- Wave equation and classification of PDEs

March 2 -- Classification and multidimensional equations

March 4 -- Multidimensional equations

March 9 -- Midterm review

March 16 -- Introduction to numerical analysis

March 18 -- Numerical solutions of the diffusion equation

March 23 -- More numerical diffusion equation solutions

March 25 -- Numerical solutions of elliptic equations

March 30 -- More numerical elliptic equation solutions

April 13-15 -- Introduction to finite elements

April 20-22 -- Finite elements in two dimensions

April 27-29 -- More two-dimensional elements