Numerical methods using Matlab

(with focus on methods for Structural Dynamics) Course at UCLV, Santa Clara, Cuba 2 5 December 2013 Dirk Roose (KU Leuven)

Content of the course

Introduction on Matlab (and Octave). Participants in the course will define a small project related to their work and implement it within Matlab. The lecturer will supervise the projects and will help the participants during the implementation. The projects will be evaluated and further usage of Matlab/Octave will be discussed. We focus on methods that are useful for Structural Dynamics follow-up course (in May?) We will demonstrate the use the Matlab Toolbox for signal processing.

Course material
PublicMatlab : course by Prof. Jake Blanchard (University of Wisconsin Madison, 2008)
slides & files available from http://blanchard.ep.wisc.edu/PublicMatlab/

Book Engineering Computation with Matlab D.M. Smith, Pearson, 2013 (3d edition)
also available as e-book

Book Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave A. Quarteroni, F. Saleri, P. Gervasio, LNCSE, Springer, 2011 (3d ed)
Matlab programs available at http://mox.polimi.it/qs

Book Fundamentals of Scientific Computing Bertil Gustafsson, LNCSE, Springer, 2011

available as e-book

Course material
Websites The Mathworks !!! www.mathworks.com Many others: e.g. focus on Mechanical Eng.:
G. Recktenwald (Dept. Mechanical Eng., Portland State Univ.), http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~gerry/nmm/course/slides/ http://people.rit.edu/pnveme/Plig_2006/ (`learning innovation grant)

Matlab
Initially: Interactive Matrix Laboratory Extended in many different directions
Many (all?) other numerical tasks Programming language Programming environment

Toolboxes: user-friendly environment for many application areas (e.g., signal processing) !!! Free software: Octave !!! www.octave.org

Signal Processing Toolbox

Key Features Developing Signal Processing Algorithms Generating, Visualizing, and Analyzing Signals Performing Spectral Analysis in MATLAB Designing Digital FIR and IIR Filters

Prerequisites for course on Structural Dynamics

Matrix operations Complex numbers Eigenvalues & eigenvectors (stability analysis) Signal processing Fast Fourier transform Harmonic & periodic functions Time integration

Schedule
Lunes 02/12/2013: Matlab basics Participants define a small project related to their work to be implemented with Matlab Martes 03/12/2013 Matlab & demo Toolbox for signal processing Participants work out the project under supervision Mircoles 04/12/2013 Participants work out the project under supervision Jueves 05/12/2013 Presentation and evaluation of the projects and evaluation Viernes 06/12/2013 (morning) ??? General conclusions; further usage of Matlab.