Finite Element Method - Theory and Implementation WS 23/24
General information
The course focuses on the core ingredients to develop a Finite Element software - meshes, basis functions, quadrature rules, assembly, etc.
It is part of the course catalog of the Mathematics department, being suitable for all students in the M.Sc. programs
- Mathematics
- Technomathematics (mandatory)
- Mathematics in Business and Economics
- CMS - Track CMA (mandatory)
- CMS - Track CE (mandatory)
Lecture and Tutorials
The lecture and the the tutorials will be held offline, so in person.
Note that the content of lecture and tutorial changed in comparison to the last years!
The lecture will be on Tuesday 13:00-14:30 in TRE/MATH/H.
There will be two tutorials groups, one on Wednesday 11:10-12:40 (Z21/242/U) and one on Thursday 9:20-10:50 (WIL/C107/U). Please choose one tutorial and sign in in the corresponding tutorial group.
The tutorial will start in the first week of the semester.
Changes to the schedule
Because of a public holiday there will be no lecture at the 31st October. The tutorials will take place nevertheless and there will also be an assignment in this week.
The tutorial on Wednesday will not take place at the 22nd November because of a public holiday. The date and time for the replacement session will be announced in time.
Assignments
Each week an assignment sheet will be published that should be prepared and submitted before Tuesday 11:59 in the following week. In the first week there will be no assignment sheet. If more than 80% of the tasks in an assignment sheet have been completed correctly, you get bonus points for the exam. For each passed assignment sheet you get 1% of the reachable points of the exam up to a maximum of 10%. Please note that only bonus points from the current semester will be counted towards the exam.
Submission
In the 'Assignment' section on this website there is as an upload button. Files should be placed there until Tuesday 11:59 and the filename should be kept as is, e.g. assignment_1.ipynb.
Further Studies
For a deeper understanding of the underlying mathematical concepts of the FEM we strongly recommend the lecture Math-Ma-28: Numerical methods for partialdifferential equations – Basic concepts