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Tools in Scientific Computing

IIT Kharagpur, , Prof. Aditya Bandopadhyay

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Rapid advancements in computer hardware and high quality software libraries have enabled one to undertake works requiring high precision scientific computing with relative ease. The course involves exploration of various tools available for scientific computing with an emphasis on hands-on implementation. The course will deal briefly with the theory and the associated implementation for practical problems that an engineer may encounter. Undergraduates, postgraduates, and PhD students may find this course immensely useful for their project or research work. The course will make use of Python, GNU Octave, and PETSC (C based) as the medium of coding.

Includes

Lecture 15: Lecture 14: 2D flows - linear systems

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Lecture Details

Prof Aditya Bandopadhyay
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Kharagpur

Concepts Cover:
Study of Simple Harmonic Oscillator with and without damping.
Introduction to phase portraits.
Introduction to Lyapunov stability
Relation between eigen vectors and stability of fixed points.

Reference Link:

The python and octave notebooks can be downloaded from http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~adityab/lecture_list.html
as a quick reference

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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