Numerical Methods

Abstract

In previous chapters analytical solution techniques to both ordinary and partial differential equations were presented. More often than not, problems are encountered for which the describing differential equations are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to solve analytically. Fortunately, since the latter part of the 1950s, the digital computer has become an increasingly useful tool for solving differential equations, whether they be ordinary or partial, linear or nonlinear, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous, or first order or tenth order.