Below are Jupyter notebook tutorials for Brian Mercer's TAM 470 course (Computational Mechanics) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The order of the tutorials listed below corresponds to the order they will be addressed in the course.
Click the links below to open each tutorial notebook directly in Google Colab.
- Forward Euler Demo
- Stability Demo - Forward vs Backward Euler
- Newton–Raphson Demo
- Nonlinear Backward Euler Example
- RK4 and Multistep examples
- BVP Example
- 1D Transient Heat Equation Example
- 1D Convection Example
- 2D Transient Heat Equation (Explicit)
- 2D Steady Heat with the Point Jacobi Method
- Each notebook runs entirely in Google Colab.
- You do not need to clone or download the GitHub repo.
- Use these links to access the latest tutorial versions