About the Author ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part I 1 1 Solution Methods for Scalar Nonlinear Equations 31.1 Nonlinear Equations in Physics 3
1.2 Approximate Roots: Tolerance 5
1.2.1 The Bisection Method 6
1.3 Newton's Method 10
1.4 Order of a Root-Finding Method 13
1.5 Chord and Secant Methods 16
1.6 Conditioning 18
1.7 Local and Global Convergence 20
Problems and Exercises 24
2 Polynomial Interpolation 292.1 Function Approximation 29
2.2 Polynomial Interpolation 30
2.3 Lagrange's Interpolation 33
2.3.1 Equispaced Grids 37
2.4 Barycentric Interpolation 39
2.5 Convergence of the Interpolation Method 43
2.5.1 Runge's Counterexample 46
2.6 Conditioning of an Interpolation 49
2.7 Chebyshev's Interpolation 54
Problems and Exercises 60
3 Numerical Differentiation 633.1 Introduction 63
3.2 Differentiation Matrices 66
3.3 Local Equispaced Differentiation 72
3.4 Accuracy of Finite Differences 75
3.5 Chebyshev Differentiation 80
Problems and Exercises 84
4 Numerical Integration 874.1 Introduction 87
4.2 Interpolatory Quadratures 88
4.2.1 Newton-Cotes Quadratures 92
4.2.2 Composite Quadrature Rules 95
4.3 Accuracy of Quadrature Formulas 98
4.4 Clenshaw-Curtis Quadrature 104
4.5 Integration of Periodic Functions 112
4.6 Improper Integrals 115
4.6.1 Improper Integrals of the First Kind 116
4.6.2 Improper Integrals of the Second Kind 119
Problems and Exercises 125
Part II 129 5 Numerical Linear Algebra 1315.1 Introduction 131
5.2 Direct Linear Solvers 132
5.2.1 Diagonal and Triangular Systems 133
5.2.2 The Gaussian Elimination Method 135
5.3 LU Factorization of a Matrix 140
5.3.1 Solving Systems with LU 145
5.3.2 Accuracy of LU 147
5.4 LU with Partial Pivoting 150
5.5 The Least Squares Problem 160
5.5.1 QR Factorization 162
5.5.2 Linear Data Fitting 173
5.6 Matrix Norms and Conditioning 178
5.7 Gram-Schmidt Orthonormalization 183
5.7.1 Instability of CGS: Reorthogonalization 187
5.8 Matrix-Free Krylov Solvers 193
Problems and Exercises 204
6 Systems of Nonlinear Equations 2096.1 Newton's Method for Nonlinear Systems 210
6.2 Nonlinear Systems with Parameters 220
6.3 Numerical Continuation (Homotopy) 224
Problems and Exercises 232
7 Numerical Fourier Analysis 2357.1 The Discrete Fourier Transform 235
7.1.1 Time-Frequency Windows 243
7.1.2 Aliasing 246
7.2 Fourier Differentiation 251
Problems and Exercises 258
8 Ordinary Differential Equations 2618.1 Boundary Value Problems 262
8.1.1 Bounded Domains 262
8.1.2 Periodic Domains 275
8.1.3 Unbounded Domains 277
8.2 The Initial Value Problem 279
8.2.1 Runge-Kutta One-Step Formulas 281
8.2.2 Linear Multistep Formulas 287
8.2.3 Convergence of Time-Steppers 297
8.2.4 A-Stability 301
8.2.5 A-Stability in Nonlinear Systems: Stiffness 315
Problems and Exercises 330
Solutions to Problems and Exercises 335
Glossary of Mathematical Symbols 367
Bibliography 369
Index 373
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.
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