applied analytical methods

instructors | antonios zagaris : brenny van groessen : stephan van gils


syllabus & additional info (spring 2012, 4th quartal)

(tentative: do check back every week for changes)

  • the first half of the course — devoted to singularly perturbed problems both for ordinary (two lectures) and partial differential equations (two lectures) — consists of two lectures of three hours each. all lectures are on thursday, 14:45-17:30; the third hour is devoted to a hands-on session on the homework.
  • the homework sets to be solved each week can be found below (also in Blackboard). please hand in all exercises with the end of this first half of the course.

  • week 17 : a singularly perturbed ode problem: (small) mass - spring - damping

    please study §2.1-2.2 & the entire §3; hand in, as homework, problems 2-3 of homework set #2 (from the same set of notes).

    week 18 : strained coordinates & the mutiscale method

    please study the entire §6; hand in, as homework, homework set #3 (from the same set of notes).

    week 19 : a singuarly perturbed elliptic problem

    please study the entire §8; hand in, as homework, the homework set following that section.

    week 20

    [notes coming up]