A Student's Guide to Numerical Methods

Preface 1. Fitting functions to data 2. Ordinary differential equations 3. Two-point boundary conditions 4. Partial differential equations 5. Diffusion: parabolic PDEs 6. Elliptic problems and iterative matrix solution 7. Fluid dynamics and hyperbolic equations 8. Boltzmann's equation and its solution 9. Energy-resolved diffusive transport 10. Atomistic and particle-in-cell simulation 11. Monte Carlo techniques 12. Monte Carlo radiation transport 13. Next steps Appendix A. Summary of matrix algebra Index.

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