John D. Fenton Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13/222, 1040 Vienna, Austria URL: http://johndfenton.com/ URL: mailto:JohnDFenton@gmail.com
Abstract These notes provide an introduction to numerical methods for the solution of physical problems. Extensive use will be made of Excel Solver for the solving or approximating the solution of systems of equations.
Accompanying documents The following Excel documents can be found in the same directory as this file: URL: http://johndfenton.com/Lectures/Numerical-Methods/ and are referred to in the subsequent notes File name Description 1-FUNCTIONS.XLS Basic Excel functions 2-SOLUTION.XLS Solution of a single equation in a single variable 3-SOLVER.XLS Solver applied to solution of equations, interpolation, and approximation 4-FITTING.XLS A curve fitting example where using Excel Trendline gave poor results 5-DIFF-EQNS.XLS Different problems solved by different methods 6-SPLINES.XLS Use of cubic splines for interpolation SPLINES.XLS Contains the spline functions necessary for the previous spreadsheet