Postgraduate Studies Courses Intelligent Systems in Transportation and Construction Management
Applied Mathematics
Instructor: Petropoulou Eugenia
Course code: 6012
e-class: http://eclass.upatras.gr:80/courses/CIV1555/
Course content:

Dimensional analysis.
Curvilinear coordinate systems.
Perturbation methods.
Boundary layer analysis.
Wave solutions of partial differential quations (travelling waves, standing waves, shock waves, solitons).
Nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations (equilibrium points, stability theory).
Green functions.
Implementation of various methods using symbolic packages (e.g. Mathematica or MUPAD of Matlab).
Applications to civil engineering problems.


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