control_2019
Control of Partial Differential Equations

control_2019, computer lab exercises for MATH2601, "Advanced Scientific Computing 1: Control of Partial Differential Equations", Instructor: Catalin Trenchea, University of Pittsburgh, fall 2019, MWF 1:00-1:50, Room: THACK 524.

Location: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/classes/control_2019/control_2019.html

• MATLAB demonstration;
• MATLAB overview; a summary of some useful MATLAB commands.
• MATLAB introduction; an introduction to MATLAB involving a few simple tasks.
• the initial value problem, an ordinary differential equation with an initial condition.
• the boundary value problem, a second-order ordinary differential equation with the solution value specified at both ends of an interval.
• gradient descent, a technique for seeking the minimum of a function.
• Poisson 2D, using finite differences to model a Poisson equation on a rectangular domain.