Numerical Fluid Mechanics
As taught in: Spring 2007
A computer simulation of high velocity air flow around a space shuttle during re-entry. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
Instructors:
Prof. Henrik Schmidt
MIT Course Number:
2.29
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
This course introduces students to MATLAB®. Numerical methods include number representation and errors, interpolation, differentiation, integration, systems of linear equations, and Fourier interpolation and transforms. Students will study partial and ordinary differential equations as well as elliptic and parabolic differential equations, and solutions by numerical integration, finite difference methods, finite element methods, boundary element methods, and panel methods.


