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21-661 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations I
6 units

Forming and solving elliptic difference equations. Relaxation, conjugate gradient and multigrid solution algorithms. Discrete maximum principles and error estimates. Explicit and implicit difference schemes for parabolic equations and systems. Stability of difference schemes. Parabolic free boundary problems. Stefan problems. Stochastic algorithms.