Alvaro Meseguer - Fundamentals of Numerical Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers

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Alvaro Meseguer

Department of PhysicsUniversitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya – UPC BarcelonaTech

This edition first published 2020

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Names: Meseguer, Alvaro (Alvaro Meseguer), author.

Title: Fundamentals of numerical mathematics for physicists and engineers /

Alvaro Meseguer.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2020. | Includes bibliographical

references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019057703 (print) | LCCN 2019057704 (ebook) | ISBN

9781119425670 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119425717 (adobe pdf) | ISBN

9781119425755 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Numerical analysis. | Mathematical physics. | Engineering

mathematics.

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Alvaro Meseguer, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC BarcelonaTech), Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches Numerical Methods, Fluid Dynamics and Mathematical Physics to advanced undergraduates in Engineering Physics and Mathematics. He has published more than 30 articles in peer‐reviewed journals within the fields of computational fluid dynamics, and nonlinear physics.

Much of the material in this book is derived from lecture notes for two courses on numerical methods taught over many years to undergraduate students in Engineering Physics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) BarcelonaTech. Its volume is scaled to a one‐year course, that is, a two‐semester course. Accordingly, the book has two parts. Part Iis addressed to first or second year undergraduate students who have a solid foundation in differential and integral calculus in one real variable (including Taylor series, notation, and improper integrals), along with elementary linear algebra (including polynomials and systems of linear equations). Part IIis addressed to slightly more advanced undergraduate or first‐year graduate students with a broader mathematical background, including multivariate calculus, ordinary differential equations, functions of a complex variable, and Fourier series. In both cases, it is assumed that the students are familiar with basic Matlab commands and functions.

The book has been written thinking not only of the student but also of the instructor (or instructors) that is supposed to teach the material following an academic calendar. Each chapter contains mathematical topics to be addressed in the lectures, along with Matlab codes and computer hands‐on practicals. These practicals are problem‐solving tutorials where the students, always supervised and guided by an instructor, use Matlab on a local computer to solve a given exercise that is focused on the topic previously seen in the lectures. From my point of view, teaching numerical methods should encompass not only theoretical lectures, addressing the underlying mathematics on a blackboard, but also practical computations, where the student learns the actual implementation of those mathematical concepts. There are certain aspects of numerical mathematics, such as conditioning or order of convergence , that can only be properly illustrated by experimentation on a computer. These hands‐on practicals may also help the instructor to efficiently assess the performance of a student. This can be easily carried out by using Matlab's publishfunction, for example. The end of each chapter also includes a short list of problems and exercises of theoretical (labeled with an A) and/or computational (labeled with an N) nature. The solutions to many of the exercises (and practicals) can be found at the end of the book. Finally, each chapter includes a Complementary Reading section, where the student may find suitable bibliography to broaden his or her knowledge on different aspects of numerical mathematics. Complementary lists of exercises can also be found in many of these recommended references.