Feeding Mathematical Methods into Engineering Courses

DOI

10.2991/meici-16.2016.190How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mathematical methods; ODE; PDE; Matrix

Abstract

The students in engineering coursed are short of mathematics knowledge to solve engineering problems. In order to strengthen the mathematical knowledge of students in engineering courses, the mathematical methods are provided in the paper. Based on the author's research work, the explicit Euler's method, implicit Euler's method, modified Euler's method; runge-kutta method and ODE45 method are introduced and compared for solving the ODE problem. All these methods are consistent with each other in solving the 2nd order ODE. The error of them is very small. Also PDE method is introduced for solving PDE equations. And finite element method (FEM) is implied in modeling the problem. These methods are useful for students to build up the model to describe and solve the technical problems. This can also provide guidance for the future learning and teaching of engineering courses.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhidong Hu
PY  - 2016/09
DA  - 2016/09
TI  - Feeding Mathematical Methods into Engineering Courses
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 919
EP  - 925
SN  - 1951-6851
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