MOX Seminar

Spectral Element Methods

Paola Gervasio — Università degli Studi di Brescia

Event information

Speaker
Paola Gervasio
Affiliation
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Date
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Time
14:00:00
Location
Aula Saleri VI Piano Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano

Abstract

Spectral Element Methods (SEM) are high order methods to approximate boundary value problems. Topics of the talk are: fundamentals of SEM for quadrilateral partitions, optimal preconditioners for SEM matrices arising from the discretization of self-adjoint elliptic equations, a brief outline of triangular SEM. contact: nicola.parolini@polimi.it