SCHEDULE
DIS_2014, Summer Session 2014

  • Tuesday, 13 May, 1:00pm-2:15pm:
    Discussion: Course overview; student project options;
    Video #1: An overview of the course.
  • Thursday, 15 May, 11:00am:12:00noon Discussion: Simple Meshing;
    Video #2: A real brief overview of deal.II.
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Using geometry to define elements;
    Video #3: Obtaining and installing deal.II.
  • Thursday, 22 May, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Defining finite element basis functions;
    Video #4: The building blocks of a finite element code.
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Making a mesh for a NACA wing;
    Video #5: step-1, part1: Simple meshes.
  • Thursday, 29 May, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Class cancelled, go to Arsia Takeh's defense at 12:00 noon!
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: DEAL.II on classroom and cluster;
    bilinear basis functions in 2D;
    Video #6: step-1, part2: playing with meshes.
  • Thursday, 5 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: biquadratic and serendipity basis functions in 2D;
    Video #9: degrees of freedom, sparsity in finite element matrices.
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Approximating and assembling a 1D finite element linear system;
    Video #10: a first Laplace solver.
  • Thursday, 12 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Storing and solving a 1D finite element linear system;
    Tim Handy will speak about the Visit program.
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Error norms; rates of convergence;
    Video #11: Visit: a visualization tool.
  • Thursday, 19 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: A model 2D problem;
    Video #12: A little bit of C++: templates.
  • Monday, 23 June, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    (Only one class this week, and it is on MONDAY!)
    Discussion: Basis functions and element matrices for 2D fluid flow;
    Video #13: A dimension-independent Laplace solver.
  • Tuesday, 01 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    (Only one class this week!)
    Discussion: The Wathen Matrix, the Serendipity Element, Checking the Basis;
    Video #14: Computing on successively refined meshes.
  • Tuesday, 08 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: Choices for sparse matrix storage;
    Video #15: Adaptively refining meshes.
  • Thursday, 10 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: The conjugate-gradient method to solve linear systems;
    Video #17: step-6, adaptive meshes.
  • Tuesday, 15 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Hans-Werner van Wyk will conduct class
    Discussion: time dependent problems, the explicit case;
    Video #26: time dependent problems, a taxonomy.
  • Thursday, 17 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Hans-Werner van Wyk will conduct class;
    Discussion: time dependent problems, the implicit case;
    Video #27: Time discretization for parabolic problems.
  • Tuesday, 22 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: The UMFPACK solver for sparse linear systems;
    Video #29: the heat equation, part 1.
  • Thursday, 24 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Discussion: The SuperLU solver for sparse linear systems;
    Video #30: the heat equation, part 2.
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Oral presentations;
  • Thursday, 31 July, 12:30pm-1:45pm:
    Project reports due.

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    Last revised on 11 July 2014.