Applied mathematical methods
Applied Mathematical Methods covers the material vital for research in today's world and can be covered in a regular semester course. It is the consolidation of the efforts of teaching the compulsory first semester post-graduate applied mathematics course at the Department of Mechanical Enginee...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pearson
2006
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Edición: | 1st edition |
Colección: | Always learning.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Preliminary Background
- Theme of the Book
- Course Contents
- Sources for More Detailed Study
- Directions for Using the Book
- Expected Background
- Preliminary Test
- Prerequisite Problem Sets*
- Problem set 1
- Problem set 2
- Problem set 3
- Problem set 4
- Problem set 5
- Problem set 6
- Chapter 2: Matrices and Linear Transformations
- Matrices
- Geometry and Algebra
- Linear Transformations
- Matrix Terminology
- Exercises
- Chapter 3: Operational Fundamentals of Linear Algebra
- Range and Null Space: Rank and Nullity
- Basis
- Change of Basis
- Elementary Transformations
- Exercises
- Chapter 4: Systems of Linear Equations
- Nature of Solutions
- Basic Idea of Solution Methodology
- Homogeneous Systems
- Pivoting
- Partitioning and Block Operations
- Exercises
- Chapter 5: Gauss Elimination Family of Methods
- Gauss-Jordan Elimination
- Gaussian Elimination with Back-Substitution
- LU Decomposition
- Exercises
- Chapter 6: Special Systems and Special Methods
- Quadratic Forms, Symmetry and Positive Definiteness
- Cholesky Decomposition
- Sparse Systems*
- Exercises
- Chapter 7: Numerical Aspects in Linear Systems
- Norms and Condition Numbers
- Ill-conditioning and Sensitivity
- Rectangular Systems
- Singularity-Robust Solutions
- Iterative Methods
- Exercises
- Chapter 8: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
- Eigenvalue Problem
- Generalized Eigenvalue Problem
- Some Basic Theoretical Results
- Eigenvalues of transpose
- Diagonal and block diagonal matrices
- Triangular and block triangular matrices
- Shift theorem
- Deflation
- Eigenspace
- Similarity transformation
- Power Method
- Exercises
- Chapter 9: Diagonalization and Similarity Transformations
- Diagonalizability.
- Canonical Forms
- Symmetric Matrices
- Similarity Transformations
- Exercises
- Chapter 10: Jacobi and Givens Rotation Methods
- Plane Rotations
- Jacobi Rotation Method
- Givens Rotation Method
- Exercises
- Chapter 11: Householder Transformation and Tridiagonal Matrices
- Householder Reflection Transformation
- Householder Method
- Eigenvalues of Symmetric Tridiagonal Matrices
- Exercises
- Chapter 12: QR Decomposition Method
- QR Decomposition
- QR Iterations
- Conceptual Basis of QR Method*
- QR Algorithm with Shift*
- Exercises
- Chapter 13: Eigenvalue Problem of General Matrices
- Introductory Remarks
- Reduction to Hessenberg Form*
- QR Algorithm on Hessenberg Matrices*
- Inverse Iteration
- Recommendation
- Exercises
- Chapter 14: Singular Value Decomposition
- SVD Theorem and Construction
- Properties of SVD
- Pseudoinverse and Solution of Linear Systems
- Optimality of Pseudoinverse Solution
- SVD Algorithm
- Exercises
- Chapter 15: Vector Spaces: Fundamental Concepts*
- Group
- Field
- Vector Space
- Linear Transformation
- Isomorphism
- Inner Product Space
- Function Space
- Vector space of continuous functions
- Linear dependence and independence
- Inner product, norm and orthogonality
- Linear transformations
- Exercises
- Chapter 16: Topics in Multivariate Calculus
- Derivatives in Multi-Dimensional Spaces
- Taylor's Series
- Chain Rule and Change of Variables
- Differentiation of implicit functions
- Multiple integrals
- Exact differentials
- Differentiation under the integral sign
- Numerical Differentiation
- An Introduction to Tensors*
- Exercises
- Chapter 17: Vector Analysis: Curves and Surfaces
- Recapitulation of Basic Notions
- Curves in Space
- Surfaces*
- Exercises
- Chapter 18: Scalar and Vector Fields
- Differential Operations on Field Functions.
- The del or nabla (∇) operator
- Gradient
- Divergence
- Curl
- Composite operations
- Second order differential operators
- Integral Operations on Field Functions
- Green's theorem in the plane
- Gauss's divergence theorem
- Green's identities (theorem)
- Stokes's theorem
- Line integral
- Surface and volume integrals
- Closure
- Exercises
- Chapter 19: Polynomial Equations
- Basic Principles
- Analytical Solution
- Cubic equations (Cardano)
- Quartic equations (Ferrari)
- General Polynomial Equations
- Two Simultaneous Equations
- Elimination Methods*
- Sylvester's dialytic method
- Bezout's method
- Advanced Techniques*
- Exercises
- Chapter 20: Solution of Nonlinear Equations and Systems
- Methods for Nonlinear Equations
- Bracketing and bisection
- Fixed point iteration
- Newton-Raphson method
- Secant method and method of false position
- Quadratic interpolation method
- Van Wijngaarden-Dekker Brent method
- Systems of Nonlinear Equations
- Newton's method for systems of equations
- Broyden's secant method
- Closure
- Exercises
- Chapter 21: Optimization: Introduction
- The Methodology of Optimization
- Single-Variable Optimization
- Optimality criteria
- Iterative methods
- Conceptual Background of Multivariate Optimization
- Optimality criteria
- Convexity
- Trust region and line search strategies
- Global and local convergence
- Exercises
- Chapter 22: Multivariate Optimization
- Direct Methods
- Cyclic coordinate search
- Rosenbrock's method
- Hooke-Jeeves pattern search
- Box's complex method
- Nelder and Mead's simplex search
- Remarks
- Steepest Descent (Cauchy) Method
- Newton's Method
- Modified Newton's method
- Hybrid (Levenberg-Marquardt) Method
- Least Square Problems
- Exercises
- Chapter 23: Methods of Nonlinear Optimization*
- Conjugate Direction Methods.
- Conjugate gradient method
- Extension to general (non-quadratic) functions
- Powell's conjugate direction method
- Quasi-Newton Methods
- Closure
- Exercises
- Chapter 24: Constrained Optimization
- Constraints
- Optimality Criteria
- Sensitivity
- Duality*
- Structure of Methods: An Overview*
- Penalty methods
- Primal methods
- Dual methods
- Lagrange methods
- Exercises
- Chapter 25: Linear and Quadratic Programming Problems*
- Linear Programming
- The simplex method
- General perspective
- Quadratic Programming
- Active set method
- Linear complementary problem
- A trust region method
- Duality
- Exercises
- Chapter 26: Interpolation and Approximation
- Polynomial Interpolation
- Lagrange interpolation
- Newton interpolation
- Limitations of single-polynomial interpolation
- Hermite interpolation
- Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation
- Piecewise cubic interpolation
- Spline interpolation
- Interpolation of Multivariate Functions
- Piecewise bilinear interpolation
- Piecewise bicubic interpolation
- A Note on Approximation of Functions
- Modelling of Curves and Surfaces*
- Exercises
- Chapter 27: Basic Methods of Numerical Integration
- Newton-Cotes Integration Formulae
- Mid-point rule
- Trapezoidal rule
- Simpson's rules
- Richardson Extrapolation and Romberg Integration
- Further Issues
- Exercises
- Chapter 28: Advanced Topics in Numerical Integration*
- Gaussian Quadrature
- Gauss-Legendre quadrature
- Weight functions in Gaussian quadrature
- Multiple Integrals
- Double integral on rectangular domain
- Monte Carlo integration
- Exercises
- Chapter 29: Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
- Single-Step Methods
- Euler's method
- Improved Euler's method or Heun's method
- Runge-Kutta methods
- Practical Implementation of Single-Step Methods.
- Runge-Kutta method with adaptive step size
- Extrapolation based methods
- Systems of ODE's
- Multi-Step Methods*
- Exercises
- Chapter 30: ODE Solutions: Advanced Issues
- Stability Analysis
- Implicit Methods
- Stiff Differential Equations
- Boundary Value Problems
- Shooting method
- Finite difference (relaxation) method
- Finite element method
- Exercises
- Chapter 31: Existence and Uniqueness Theory
- Well-Posedness of Initial Value Problems
- Existence of a solution
- Uniqueness of a solution
- Continuous dependence on initial condition
- Uniqueness Theorems
- Extension to ODE Systems
- Closure
- Exercises
- Chapter 32: First Order Ordinary Differential Equations
- Formation of Differential Equations and Their Solutions
- Separation of Variables
- ODE's with Rational Slope Functions
- Some Special ODE's
- Clairaut's equation
- Second order ODE's with the function not appearing explicitly
- Second order ODE's with independent variable not appearing explicitly
- Exact Differential Equations and Reduction to the Exact Form
- First Order Linear (Leibnitz) ODE and Associated Forms
- Orthogonal Trajectories
- Modelling and Simulation
- Exercises
- Chapter 33: Second Order Linear Homogeneous ODE's
- Introduction
- Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
- Euler-Cauchy Equation
- Theory of the Homogeneous Equations
- Basis for Solutions
- Exercises
- Chapter 34: Second Order Linear Non-Homogeneous ODE's
- Linear ODE's and Their Solutions
- Method of Undetermined Coefficients
- Method of Variation of Parameters
- Closure
- Exercises
- Chapter 35: Higher Order Linear ODE's
- Theory of Linear ODE's
- Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
- Non-Homogeneous Equations
- Euler-Cauchy Equation of Higher Order
- Exercises
- Chapter 36: Laplace Transforms
- Introduction.
- Basic Properties and Results.