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Numerical Fluid Mechanics

This computer-simulation uses different colors to show high velocity air flow around a space shuttle during re-entry.

A computer simulation of high velocity air flow around a space shuttle during re-entry. (Image courtesy of NASA.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

2.29

As Taught In

Spring 2007

Level

Graduate

Course Features

Course Description

This course introduces students to MATLAB®. Numerical methods include number representation and errors, interpolation, differentiation, integration, systems of linear equations, and Fourier interpolation and transforms. Students will study partial and ordinary differential equations as well as elliptic and parabolic differential equations, and solutions by numerical integration, finite difference methods, finite element methods, boundary element methods, and panel methods.