Course Details

Numerical methods 1

Academic Year 2026/27

DAB030 course is part of 24 study plans

​ DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-GK Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-GK Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-E Summer Semester 1st year

Mathematical approaches to the analysis of engineering problems, namely ordinary and partial differential equations, directed to numerical calculations.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jiří Vala, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Knowledge of engineering mathematics at the level of engineering study of civil engineering at FCE BUT.

Aims

Understanding the main priciples of numeric calculation and the factors influencing calculation. Solving selected basic problems of numerical analysis, using iteration methods to solve the f(x)=0 equation and systems of linear algebraic equations using calculation algorithms. Learning how to approximate eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Learning about the basic problems in interpolation and approximation of functions. Getting acquainted with the principles of numeric differentiation and knowing how to numerically approximate integrals of one- and two-functions.

Basic Literature

DALÍK J.: Numerické metody. CERM Brno 1997. (cs)
VITÁSEK E.: Základy teorie numerických metod pro řešení diferenciálních rovnic. Academia Praha 1994. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/302214

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Errors in numerical calculations. Numerical methods for one nonlinear equation in one unknown
  • 2. Basic principles of iterative methods. The Banach fixed-point theorem.
  • 3. Norms of vectors and of matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Iterative methods for systems of linear algebraic equations – part I.
  • 4. Iterative methods for linear algebraic equations – part II. Iterative methods for systems of nonlinear equations.
  • 5. Direct methods for systems of linear algebraic equations, LU-decomposition. Systems of linear algebraic equations with special matrice – part I.
  • 6. Systems of linear algebraic equations with special matrices – part II. The methods based on the minimization of a quadratic form.
  • 7. Computing inverse matrices and determinants, the stability and the condition number of a matrix.
  • 8. Eigenvalues of matrices – the power method. Basic principles of interpolation.
  • 9. Polynomial interpolation.
  • 10. Interpolation by means of splines. Orthogonal polynoms.
  • 11. Approximation by the discrete least squares.
  • 12. Numerical differentiation, Richardson´s extrapolation. Numerical integration of functions in one variables – part I.
  • 13. Numerical integration of functions in one variables – part II. Numerical integration of functions in two variables.