Download or read book Advanced Topics in Computational Partial Differential Equations written by Hans Petter Langtangen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-22 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle introduction to advanced topics such as parallel computing, multigrid methods, and special methods for systems of PDEs. The goal of all chapters is to ‘compute’ solutions to problems, hence algorithmic and software issues play a central role. All software examples use the Diffpack programming environment - some experience with Diffpack is required. There are also some chapters covering complete applications, i.e., the way from a model, expressed as systems of PDEs, through to discretization methods, algorithms, software design, verification, and computational examples. Suitable for readers with a background in basic finite element and finite difference methods for partial differential equations.