Course Outline Numerical Methods
Course Outline Numerical Methods
COURSE OUTLINE
(NUMERICAL METHODS)
Course Outcomes
After completing this course, the student must be able to:
1. Identify appropriate numerical/mathematical tool or concepts
suitable for the solution of the CE problem;
2. Analyze the CE problem to translate it to a numerical solution;
3. Solve civil engineering problems numerically when their analytical
solution is either not available or difficult to obtain.
Course Outline
1. Review of Mathematical Foundation
-Physical Meaning of Derivative and Integrals
-Taylor Series Expansion
-Definition of Matrix and Vector; Matrix Algebra
2. Fundamentals of Computer aided mathematical calculations
3. Solving System of Linear Equations
-Unique and Multiple Solutions, Trivial and Non-Trivial Solutions
-Direct Methods
-Gauss Elimination Method
-Gauss Elimination with Row Pivoting
-Iterative Methods
-Jacobi Method
-Gauss-Seidel Method
4. Roots of Nonlinear Equations
-Increment Search Method
-Bisection Method
-Regula Falsi and Secant Methods
-Newton Raphson Method
5. Curve Fitting and Interpolation
-Polynomial Interpolation – Lagrange and Newton’s Polynomials
-Cubic and Quadratic Spline Interpolation
-Curve Fitting by Function Approximation
-Least Square Fit
6. Numerical Differentiation
-Finite Difference Methods-Forward, Backward and Central
Difference Formulae
-Derivative for Noisy Data
7. Numerical Integration
Republic of the Philippines
Eastern Visayas State University – Tanauan Campus
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Tanauan, Leyte
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