Current announcements

• The schedule for the oral exams on Thursday and Friday this week can now be downloaded in the Exam section. Please make sure to arrive early enough in order to allow smooth examinations.
• The dates for the oral examinations on March 31 and April 1 can be found here. The precise schedule will be available on March 29.
• There will be a second Q&A-session at March 23, 9:45 - 11:00 at room 3.061. Please prepare topics and questions, for there will be no input from our side.
• The schedule for the oral exams at Wednesday 17.2.2016 can now be downloaded in the Exam section. Please make sure to arrive early enough in order to allow smooth examinations.
• Small corrections of the lecture notes.
• A complete version of the lecture notes is now available. It includes a corrected estimate of the computational costs for the nested iteration.
• We added two questions about the Discontinuous Galerkin chapter. In the exams these new questions will be contained in the category of the eigenvalue Chapter.
• Lecture notes updated up to Section 5.4.
• The first part of Chapter 5 is now online.
• The questions for the oral examination have been updated (questions for Chapter 4 included).
• The last problem sheet can now be found in the download section.
• There is an update of the questionary which contains the questions to the multigrid chapter and a shortend list of questions for Chapter 1.
• Problem sheet 12 is now available.
• The lecture notes were complemented by a large part of the following chapter about elliptic eigenvalue problems.
• We decided that lecture notes on the multigrid and following chapters will only be provided in English.
• Small corrections at the multigrid chapter.
• Problem sheet 10 is available.
• The english lecture notes now contain the complete multigrid chapter.
• Correction on Problem sheet 8: false hint in Problem 29 part b).
• Problem sheet 9 is now available. Please remember that the problem class in the week of christmas takes place on 21st Monday at 14:00 in SR 1.067.
• The registration for the oral examinations is now open:
  https://campus.studium.kit.edu/english/exams/registration.php
  We offer two dates which are February 17 and March 31.
  For more information visit the Exam section.
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Persons

• Prof. Dr. Marlis Hochbruck (lectures)
• Dipl. math. techn. David Hipp (problem classes)

Weekly hours

4 SWS lecture + 2 SWS problem class

Contents and Prerequisites

This lecture provides an introduction to the theory of finite element methods for elliptic boundary value problems in dimension one and two. In particular, stability and convergence will be proved and concepts for the implementation of such methods will be explained. Moreover, the numerical solution of elliptic eigenvalue problems and mixed methods for saddle point problems will be investigated.

The students are expected to be familiar with the basics of numerical analysis, in particular interpolation, numerical integration, solution of linear systems and eigenvalue problems. Some basic knowledge in functional analysis and the analysis of boundary value problem is helpful but the main results will be repeated in the lecture.

Schedule

Lectures

Problem classes

Lecture dates

Please note that the dates for the lectures and problem classes may vary from week to week. The dates for the next weeks are listed below. If changes to already announced dates are required they will be highlighted by color.

Exam

We offer two dates for the oral examinations which are February 17 and March 31.

The registration for the oral examinations is now open under https://campus.studium.kit.edu/english/exams/registration.php. Registration is open until February 10 / March 24 and you can resign until February 14 / March 28.

The format of the exams will be the following:

• Until the end of the semester, we will provide you with a list of possible questions for each chapter of the lecture.
• You randomly draw three questions from this list, each from another chapter. One question can be redrawn from the same chapter with the possibility to answer the original question.
• Then you are given 20 minutes for preparation (without any aid). Any notes that you prepare during this time can be used in the oral exam.
• The actual oral exam will last additional 20 minutes during which you have to answer the questions. This leaves approximatly 7 minutes for each question. If the answer is too short we expect you to present further details of the topic. In order to assure that you understand all aspects of the topic in question, you can always be asked further questions.
• The final grade will be the mean of the grades (1-6) from the three answered questions.

The list of questions can be found here: Questions Chapter 1-5

Schedule for the exams on Wednesday, February 17.
Schedule for the exams on Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1.

Lecture notes (draft version)

The lecture notes provided here are a draft version, since they are written when the lecture progresses. This includes corrections shortly after the corresponding topic was discussed.

I am gratefull for any suggested corrections and improvements.

• lecture notes (version from 11.2.2016)

Supplementary material

The german lecture notes include the chapters from previous lectures and will also be updated as the lecture progresses. There maybe slight differences between the english and the german version.

• german lecture notes (version from 16.11.2015)

Problem sheets

sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, sheet 4, sheet 5, sheet 6, sheet 7, sheet 8, sheet 9, sheet 10, sheet 11, sheet 12, sheet 13

• Files for Programming Exercise 24
• Files for Programming Exercise 36 (MG_P36.zip)
• auxillary material for Programming Exercise 36 (crutch.zip)

Literature