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This entry is from Winter semester 2020/21 and might be obsolete. No current equivalent could be found.

Special Methods for Initial Value Problems
(dt. Spezialverfahren für Anfangswertprobleme)

Level, degree of commitment Specialization module, compulsory elective module
Forms of teaching and learning,
workload		 Lecture (3 SWS), recitation class (1 SWS),
180 hours (60 h attendance, 120 h private study)
Credit points,
formal requirements		 6 CP
Course requirement(s): Successful completion of at least 50 percent of the points from the weekly exercises.
Examination type: Written or oral examination
Language,
Grading		 German,
The grading is done with 0 to 15 points according to the examination regulations for the degree program M.Sc. Mathematics.
Duration,
frequency		 One semester,
Regularly alternating with other specialization modules
Person in charge of the module's outline Prof. Dr. Stephan Dahlke

Contents

Procedures and terms for initial value problems with special problem requirements, such as large, stiff problems, problems with conservation laws. Parallel procedures


Qualification Goals

The students shall

  • recognize the limits of the usual standard procedures when special requirements from problems or computer architecture come to the fore,
  • to get to know the theoretical background and practical solution approaches for this requirement in order to be able to make a problem-adequate choice of methods in concrete cases,
  • to illustrate here how developments in natural sciences and computer science influence applied mathematics,
  • practice mathematical working methods (development of mathematical intuition and its formal justification, training of the ability to abstract, proof techniques),
  • improve their oral communication skills in the exercises by practicing free speech in front of an audience and during discussion.

Prerequisites

None. The competences taught in the following modules are recommended: either Foundations of Mathematics and Linear Algebra I and Linear Algebra II or Basic Linear Algebra, either Analysis I and Analysis II or Basic Real Analysis, Numerical Analysis.


Applicability

Module imported from M.Sc. Mathematics.

It can be attended at FB12 in study program(s)

  • B.Sc. Mathematics
  • B.Sc. Business Mathematics
  • M.Sc. Computer Science
  • M.Sc. Mathematics
  • M.Sc. Business Mathematics

When studying M.Sc. Business Mathematics, this module can be attended in the study area Specialization Modules.


Recommended Reading

  • Strehmel, K., Weiner, R.: Numerik gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen, Teubner, 1995;
  • Burrage, K: Parallel and sequential methods for ordinary differential equations, Clarendon Press;
  • Hairer, E., Luchich, C., Wanner, G.: Geometric numerical integration – Structure-preserving algorithms for ordinary differential equations, Springer.



Please note:

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