Preliminary weekly plan

(lectures notes by Johan Hoffman are available in fem06)

All labs scheduled in the computer rooms Spellhallen and Sporthallen

Week 1

Lecture 1: Fri 27 Aug, 13-15; V1

Poisson 1D, boundary conditions, weak formulation, Galerkin method, piecewise polynomials 1D
(CDE 1-4,6,8.1).
l1-1 l1-2 l1-3 l1-4 l1-5 l1-6 l1-7 l1-8

Week 2

Lecture 2: Man 30 Aug, 13-15; V3

Poisson 2D, assembly algorithm, FEM mesh, piecewise polynomials 2D, quadrature, affine
mapping, implementation in Puffin (CDE 5.5,(7),13,14.1-14.2,14.4,15.1).
l2-1 l2-2 l2-3 l2-4 l2-5 l2-6 l2-7 l2-8 l2-9 l2-10
Excercise 1, Wed 1 Sep, 15-17; E33
Variational form of DE, Galerkin method, boundary conditions, corresponding system of equations:
Problems: 4.21, 6.2, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.14, 8.6, 8.7, 8.9, 8.10, 13.30, 15.14, 15.16, 15.19, 15.20,
15.21, 15.44, 15.45, (4.22, 4.24, 4.25, 6.12)

Week 3

Lecture 3: Mon 6 Sep, 8-10; E3

Boundary conditions, adaptivity, residual, mesh refinement (CDE 15.1,15.3,15,4, Robin boundary
conditions in 1D and 2D).
l3-1 l3-2 l3-3 l3-4 l3-5 l3-6 l3-7
Lab: Tue 7 Sep, 13-15;
Lecture 4: Wed 8 Sep, 8-10; E3
Interpolation, error estimation, higher order FEM (CDE 5,8.2-8.6,14.2,15.2-15.3).
Lab: Thu 9 Sep, 13-15;
Excercise 2, Fri 10 Sep, 13-15; E32
Variational form of DE in 2D, Galerkin method, boundary conditions, corresponding system of
equations:

Week 4

Lecture 5: Mon 13 Sep, 8-10; E3

Adaptivity, a priori, a posteriori, duality (CDE 15.5).
Lecture 6: Thu 14 Sep, 15-17; E3
Abstract problem, Lax-Milgram (CDE 21,12).
Lab: Wed 15 Sep, 15-17;
Lab: Thu 16 Sep, 13-15;

Week 5

Lecture 7: Wed 20 Sep, 8-10; E3

Initial value problem, heat equation, wave equation, stability, theta-method (CDE 9.1-9.2,16,17).
Lab: Tue 21 Sep, 13-15;
Lab: Wed 22 Sep, 8-10;
Excercise 3, Wed 22 Sep, 15-17; D32
 Interpolation, error estimation: Problems: 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, 5.14, 5.17, 5.23, 5.24, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13,
8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22, 8.23, 8.37, 8.40, 8.41, 14.9, 15.48, 15.49
Lab: Thu 23 Sep, 08-10;

Week 6

Lecture 8: Mon 27 Sep, 13-15; E3

Convection-diffusion-reaction equation, space-time FEM, stabilization Problem 18.6 (CDE 18,19).
Lab: Tue 28 Sep, 10-12;
Lab: Tue 28 Sep, 13-15;
Lab: Wed 29 Sep, 13-15;
Excercise 4, Thu 30 Sep, 8-10; E33
Error estimation, a priori, a posteriori, duality, stabilization: Problems: 18.1, 18.7, 18.9, 19.1, 19.2
Abstract problem, Lax-Milgram Theorem 21.1,21.2,21.8,21.9,21.11,21.12,21.13,21.14,21.17
(21.5,21.10)

Week 7

Lecture 9: Mon 4 Oct, 13-15; E3

ALE, Navier-Stokes, overview/repetition (CDE ).
Lab: Tue 5 Oct, 10-12;
Lab: Tue 5 Oct, 13-15;
Excercise 5, Wed 6 Oct, 15-17; E53
Repetion, preparation for written exam: Problems: extra problems, old exams
Lab: Thu 7 Oct, 13-15;
Written exam, Tue 19 Oct, 14-19 (Q11, Q13, Q22, Q24, Q26)