Acta Numerica 2011: Volume 20

A high-impact, prestigious, annual publication containing invited surveys by subject leaders: essential reading for all practitioners and researchers.

Arieh Iserles (Edited by)

9781107010864, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 May 2011

742 pages
25.4 x 18.1 x 3.3 cm, 1.41 kg

Acta Numerica is an annual publication containing invited survey papers by leading researchers in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The papers present overviews of recent developments in their area and provide state-of-the-art techniques and analysis.

1. Topics in structure - preserving discretization Snorre H. Christiansen, Hans Z. Munthe-Kaas and Brynjulf Owren
2. Mathematical and computational methods for semiclassical Schrödinger equations Shi Jin, Peter Markowich and Christof Sparber
3. Tsunami modelling with adaptively refined finite volume methods Randall J. LeVeque, David L. George and Marsha J. Berger
4. Sparse tensor discretizations of high-dimensional parametric and stochastic PDEs Christoph Schwab and Claude Jeffrey Gittelson
5. Numerical algebraic geometry and algebraic kinematics Charles W. Wampler and Andrew J. Sommese
6. Variationally consistent discretization schemes and numerical algorithms for contact problems Barbara Wohlmuth.

Subject Areas: Numerical analysis [PBKS]