Course detail
Applied Mathematics
FAST-NAB023Acad. year: 2025/2026
Mathematical approaches to the analysis of engineering applications, namely initial and boundary problems for ordinary and partial differenctial equations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry (MAT)
Entry knowledge
Basics from the mathematical analysis, due to the courses for bachelor students at MAT FCE, and numerical methods.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Understanding the notion of generalized solutions to ordinary differential equations. Getting acquainted with principles of the modern methods used to solve odrinary and partial differential equations in transport structures.
The students manage the subject to the level of understanding foundation of the modern methods of ordinary and partial differential equations in the engineering applications.
The students manage the subject to the level of understanding foundation of the modern methods of ordinary and partial differential equations in the engineering applications.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
DRÁBEK P., HOLUBOVÁ G.: Parciální diferenciální rovnice. ZČU v Plzni 2011 (CS)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-SIK Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Basics of ordinary differential equations focussing on engineering applications – classic solution, Cauchy problem and boundary problems (classes).
- 2. Analytical methods used to solve boundary problems in ordinary secod and fourth order differential equations.
- 3. Methods of solution of non-homogeneous boundary problems – Fourier method,
- 4. Green´s function, variation of constants method.
- 5. Solutions of non-linear differential equations with given boundary conditions.
- 6. Sobolev spaces and generalized solutions and reason for using such notions.
- 7. Variational methods of solutions.
- 8. Introduction to the theory of partial differential equations of two variables – classes and basic notions.
- 9. Classic solution of a boundary problem (classes), properties of solutions.
- 10. Laplace and Fourier transform – basic properties.
- 11. Fourier method used to solve evolution equations, difussion problems, wave equation.
- 12. Laplace method used to solve evolution equations – heat transfer equation.
- 13. Equations used in the theory of elasticity.
Exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Related directly to the above listed topics of lectures.
- 1. Basics of ordinary differential equations focussing on engineering applications – classic solution, Cauchy problem and boundary problems (classes).
- 2. Analytical methods used to solve boundary problems in ordinary secod and fourth order differential equations.
- 3. Methods of solution of non-homogeneous boundary problems – Fourier method,
- 4. Green´s function, variation of constants method.
- 5. Solutions of non-linear differential equations with given boundary conditions.
- 6. Sobolev spaces and generalized solutions and reason for using such notions.
- 7. Variational methods of solutions.
- 8. Introduction to the theory of partial differential equations of two variables – classes and basic notions.
- 9. Classic solution of a boundary problem (classes), properties of solutions.
- 10. Laplace and Fourier transform – basic properties.
- 11. Fourier method used to solve evolution equations, difussion problems, wave equation.
- 12. Laplace method used to solve evolution equations – heat transfer equation.
- 13. Equations used in the theory of elasticity.