Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

by William F. Ames

Book Overview

This volume is designed as an introduction to the concepts of modern numerical analysis as they apply to partial differential equations. The book contains many practical problems and their solutions, but at the same time, strives to expose the pitfalls--such as overstability, consistency requirements, and the danger of extrapolation to nonlinear problems methods used on linear problems. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Third Edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0120567601
• ISBN13: 9780120567607
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very good and helpful book for the engineer with fundamental

This book is very detail on how to generate numerical methods for partial differential equations. Staring from basics, the author proceeds with detailed examples and more complicated ideas. This is book will be very helpful for the people having basic computational knowledge and scientific computing experience. But the book is written in 1977. Some difficult ideas will be easier to be implemented on large scale computers such as Linux clusters or SGI machines. I also found one small shortcoming is that the problem complexity is not detailed discussed. This will be very important now for comparing different algorithms to accomplish the same problem.