Applied Analysis and PDEs
Description
This course will cover the following topics:
- Dynamical systems and bifurcation
- Systems of hyperbolic PDEs and shock waves
- Analysis of parabolic and elliptic PDEs (including existence, uniqueness, maximum principles, energy estimates, monotone iteration, regularity, eigenfunctions)
- Sobolev imbeddings and trace theorems
- Finite element approximations
Teaching staff for 2011-2012
| Name | Department | University |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Jack Carr | Mathematics | Heriot-Watt University |
| Professor Mark Ainsworth | Mathematics and Statistics | University of Strathclyde |
| Dr Lyonell Boulton | Mathematics | Heriot-Watt University |
| Dr Michael Grinfeld | Mathematics and Statistics | University of Strathclyde |
| Professor Bryan Rynne | Mathematics | Heriot-Watt University |