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Solving PDEs in C++ (Computational Science and Engineering)

By Yair Shapira

Book information

Publisher
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM
Year
2006
ISBN
9780898716016, 0898716012
LCC
QA377 .S466 2006
Open Library ID
OL22745496M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22670731 bytes)
Series
Computational Science and Engineering
Pages
524\524
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

As someone else mentioned already this is the only book in its kind and for me this is the only quality it possesses. If it really stood up for what the table of contents promises then it would be the perfect book but the content lets you down pretty quickly. The C++ language is used in a style that if you don't use other references there is no way to be able to understand C++ code written in the real world. Except for using the oo structures of the language everything else is in C style. But lets say you want to start with this book since it focuses on applications to pde and then perhaps move on to a more advanced reference for C++; then the book turns out to be too descriptive giving only a feeling of what's involved. There is no need to mention that no book can teach you the math for pde, however you won't learn C++ as well. The only thing you can expect, again as an other reviewer mentioned, is to run into some slick ideas about how to exploit oo concepts for meshes and adaptive refinement.

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