MAGIC098: Adaptive Finite Element Methods

Course details

A specialist MAGIC course

Semester

Autumn 2021
Monday, October 4th to Friday, December 10th

Hours

Live lecture hours
10
Recorded lecture hours
0
Total advised study hours
40

Timetable

Tuesdays
14:05 - 14:55 (UK)

Description

The main prerequisite is a strong motivation to undertake research related in modern aspects functional approximation theory, data compression, related algorithms, or the numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

A solid background in undergraduate analysis and partial differential equations, some basic functional or harmonic analysis, or numerical analysis will be useful. 

Prerequisites

Requirements are standard year 3 or master's level Analysis and some knowledge of elliptic partial differential equations.

Exposure to Galerkin or finite element methods (as taught in spring term MAGIC100 or equivalent) will be helpful though not essential. "Review" material will be uploaded. 

Syllabus

We start by reviewing the standard Galerkin method with a focus on numerical approximation methods such as wavelet Galekrin, finite elements and discontinuous Galerkin for elliptic and parabolic equations, including the needed element of functional analysis, e.g., Sobolev and Besov spaces.

We then recall the apriori error analysis of such methods and move onto aposteriori error analysis. We follow up this with an overview of the literature on adaptive methods and their convergence analysis with a focus on complexity of algorithms.

Time allowing we look at connections between wavelet and Galerkin methods or space-time methods for parabolic (perhaps hyperbolic) problems. (NB to be reduced to 10 hours) 

Lecturers

  • Dr Omar Lakkis

    Dr Omar Lakkis

    University
    University of Sussex
    Role
    Main contact
  • CV

    Dr Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

    University
    University of Sussex

Bibliography

Follow the link for a book to take you to the relevant Google Book Search page

You may be able to preview the book there and see links to places where you can buy the book. There is also link marked 'Find this book in a library' - this sometimes works well, but not always - you will need to enter your location, but it will be saved after you do that for the first time.

Assessment

The assessment for this course will be released on Wednesday 12th January 2022 at 00:00 and is due in before Thursday 27th January 2022 at 23:59.

Assessment for all MAGIC courses is via take-home exam which will be made available at the release date (the start of the exam period).

You will need to upload a PDF file with your own attempted solutions by the due date (the end of the exam period).

If you have kept up-to-date with the course, the expectation is it should take at most 3 hours’ work to attain the pass mark, which is 50%.

Please note that you are not registered for assessment on this course.

Files

Only current consortium members and subscribers have access to these files.

Please log in to view course materials.

Lectures

Please log in to view lecture recordings.