Fundamentals of Scientific Computing

• Main Author: Gustafsson, Bertil (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 8
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer simulation.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Simulation and Modeling.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics  -- Galileo Galilei   How is it possible to predict weather patterns for tomorrow, with access solely to today’s weather data? And how is it possible to predict the aerodynamic behavior of an aircraft that has yet to be built? The answer i...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Models and elementary mathematics
• Part II Fundamentals in numerical analysis
• Part III Numerical methods for differential equations
• Part IV Numerical methods for algebraic equations
• Part V Applications
• References
• Index.