Course detail
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
FSI-0AM Acad. year: 2023/2024 Summer semester
The course follows topics in Mathematics I, II, III and will introduce students to the possibilities of using the basic mathematical apparatus in mathematical modelling in physics, mechanics and other technical disciplines. In seminars, some problems will be selected that students have previously encountered, and these will be discussed in more detail from a mathematics point of view. Furthermore, mathematical modelling using differential equations as well as methods of analysis of the equations obtained will be shown.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Linear algebra, differential calculus, integral calculus, solving of linear ordinary differential equations and their systems.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Condition for awarding of the course-unit credit: Active participation in seminars.
Tolerated absence by the agreement with the teacher.
Aims
The aim of the course is to show students in more detail the application of the basic mathematical apparatus in physics, technical mechanics and other fields. The objective is to teach students to solve analytically selected problems for partial differential equations, and to analyze non-linear ordinary differential equations and their systems, which appear in some mathematical models.
After completing the course, students will be able to solve analytically selected problems for partial differential equations and understand the relations with problems from other areas of mathematics. They will be able to determine stability and types of the equilibria of non-linear autonomous differential systems and behaviour of solutions in their neighbourhoods. On selected problems from physics, mechanics and other disciplines, the students will be familirized with the possibilities of mathematical modelling using ordinary differential equations and with the analysis of equations obtained.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective
Type of course unit
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
After agreement with the students, some of the following topics will be gradually selected:
First-order partial differential equations, transport equation.
Sturm-Liouville problem for second-order ordinary differential equations.
Heat equation, Diffusion equation.
Wave equation in the plane, characteristics, initial value problem.
Bessel equation, Bessel functions.
Vibrations of a string and a membrane.
Equation of catenary.
First-order implicit differential equations, envelope of a family of curves.
Euler differential equation in stress-analysis of thick-walled cylindrical vessels
and analysis of deformation of shells.
Green functions of two-point boundary value problem in analysis of bending of beams.
Fredholm property for periodic problems and stability of compressed bars.
Planar autonomous systems of ODEs: Stability and classification of equlilibria, phase portrait.
Linear oscillators with one degree of freedom, different kinds of damping.
Duffing equation, Jacobi elliptic functions.
Non-linear oscillators with one degree of freedom.
Linear oscillations with two degree of freedom.
Mathematical modelling of a population dynamic.
Mathematical modelling of motions of dislocations in crystals.