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\section*{Introduction to numerical projects}

Here follows a brief recipe and recommendation on how to write a report for each
project.
\begin{itemize}
\item Give a short description of the nature of the problem and the eventual 
numerical methods you have used.
\item Describe the algorithm you have used and/or developed. Here you may find it convenient
to use pseudocoding. In many cases you can describe the algorithm
in the program itself.

\item Include the source code of your program. Comment your program properly.
\item If possible, try to find analytic solutions, or known limits
in order to test your program when developing the code.
\item Include your results either in figure form or in a table. Remember to
       label your results. All tables and figures should have relevant captions
       and labels on the axes.
\item Try to evaluate the reliabilty and numerical stability/precision
of your results. If possible, include a qualitative and/or quantitative
discussion of the numerical stability, eventual loss of precision etc. 

\item Try to give an interpretation of you results in your answers to 
the problems.
\item Critique: if possible include your comments and reflections about the 
exercise, whether you felt you learnt something, ideas for improvements and 
other thoughts you've made when solving the exercise.
We wish to keep this course at the interactive level and your comments can help
us improve it.
\item Try to establish a practice where you log your work at the 
computerlab. You may find such a logbook very handy at later stages
in your work, especially when you don't properly remember 
what a previous test version 
of your program did. Here you could also record 
the time spent on solving the exercise, various algorithms you may have tested
or other topics which you feel worthy of mentioning.
\end{itemize}



\section*{Format for electronic delivery of report and programs}
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The preferred format for the report is a PDF file. You can also
use DOC or postscript formats. 
As programming language we prefer that you choose between C/C++, Fortran90/95 or Python.
The following prescription should be followed when preparing the report:
\begin{itemize}
\item Use Fronter at \url{http://blyant.uio.no} to hand in your projects, log in  at 
blyant.uio.no and choose 'fellesrom fys3150'.
Thereafter you will see an icon to the left with 'hand in' or 'innlevering'.
Click on that icon and go to the given project. 
There you can load up the files within the deadline.
\item Upload {\bf only} the report file and the source code file(s) you have developed.
The report file should include all of your discussions and a list of the codes you have developed. 
Do not include library files which are available at the course homepage, unless you have
made specific changes to them.
\item Comments  from us on your projects, approval or not, corrections to be made 
etc can be found under
your Fronter domain (\url{http://blyant.uio.no}) and are only visible to you and the teachers of the course.
 
\end{itemize}
Finally, 
we encourage you to work two and two together. Optimal working groups consist of 
2-3 students. You can then hand in a common report. 

\section*{Project 1, deadline 15 september 12am (midnight)}

The aim of this project is to get familiar with various matrix operations,
from dynamic memory allocation to the usage of programs in the library
package of the course. 
For Fortran users memory handling and most matrix and vector operations
are included in the ANSI standard of Fortran 90/95. Array handling in Python is also rather trivial. For C++ user however,
there are three possible options
\begin{enumerate}
\item Make your own functions for dynamic memory allocation of a 
vector and a matrix. Use then the 
library package lib.cpp with its header file 
lib.hpp for obtaining LU-decomposed matrices, solve linear equations
etc.
\item Use the library package lib.cpp with its header file 
lib.hpp which includes a function \verb?matrix? for dynamic memory
allocation. This program package includes all the other functions
discussed during the lectures for solving systems of linear equations,
obatining the determinant, getting the inverse etc.
\item Finally, we provide on the web-page of the course a library package
which uses Blitz++'s classes for array handling. You could then, since
Blitz++ is installed on all machines at the lab, use these classes for handling
arrays.
\end{enumerate}

Your program, whether it is written in C++, Python 
or Fortran 90/95, should include
dynamic memory handling of matrices and vectors. 

The code you will write in exercise (b) will also be used project 5,with deadline november 24.  The material needed for this project is covered by chapter 4 of the lecture notes, in particular section 4.4 and subsequent sections.



Many important differential equations in the Sciences can be written as 
linear second-order differential equations 
\[
\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}+k^2(x)y = f(x),
\]
where $f$ is normally called the inhomogeneous term and $k^2$ is a real function.

A classical equation from electromagnetism is Poisson's equation.
The electrostatic potential $\Phi$ is generated by a localized charge
distribution $\rho ({\bf r})$.   In three dimensions 
it reads
\[
\nabla^2 \Phi = -4\pi \rho ({\bf r}).
\]
With a spherically symmetric $\Phi$ and $\rho ({\bf r})$  the equations
simplifies to a one-dimensional equation in $r$, namely
\[
\frac{1}{r^2}\frac{d}{dr}\left(r^2\frac{d\Phi}{dr}\right) = -4\pi \rho(r),
\]
which can be rewritten via a substitution $\Phi(r)= \phi(r)/r$ as
\[
\frac{d^2\phi}{dr^2}= -4\pi\rho(r).
\]
The inhomogeneous term $f$ or source term is given by the charge distribution
$\rho$

We will rewrite this equation by letting $\phi\rightarrow u$ and 
$r\rightarrow x$. 
The general one-dimensional Poisson equation reads then 
\[
-u''(x) = f(x).
\]

\begin{enumerate}
\item[(a)] 
In this project we will solve the one-dimensional Poissson equation
with Dirichlet boundary conditions by rewriting it as a set of linear equations.


To be more explicit we will solve the equation
\[
-u''(x) = f(x), \hspace{0.5cm} x\in(0,1), \hspace{0.5cm} u(0) = u(1) = 0.
\]
and we define the discretized approximation  to $u$ as $v_i$  with 
grid points $x_i=ih$   in the interval from $x_0=0$ to $x_{n+1}=1$.
The step length or spacing is defined as $h=1/(n+1)$. 
We have then the boundary conditions $v_0 = v_{n+1} = 0$.
We  approximate the second
derivative of $u$ with 
\[
   -\frac{v_{i+1}+v_{i-1}-2v_i}{h^2} = f_i  \hspace{0.5cm} \mathrm{for} \hspace{0.1cm} i=1,\dots, n,
\]
where $f_i=f(x_i)$.
Show that you can rewrite this equation as a linear set of equations of the form 
\[
   {\bf A}{\bf v} = \tilde{{\bf b}},
\]
where ${\bf A}$ is an $n\times n$  tridiagonal matrix which we rewrite as 
\begin{equation}
    {\bf A} = \left(\begin{array}{cccccc}
                           2& -1& 0 &\dots   & \dots &0 \\
                           -1 & 2 & -1 &0 &\dots &\dots \\
                           0&-1 &2 & -1 & 0 & \dots \\
                           & \dots   & \dots &\dots   &\dots & \dots \\
                           0&\dots   &  &-1 &2& -1 \\
                           0&\dots    &  & 0  &-1 & 2 \\
                      \end{array} \right)
\end{equation}
and $\tilde{b}_i=h^2f_i$.


In our case we will assume  that the source term is 
$f(x) = 100e^{-10x}$, and keep the same interval and boundary 
conditions. Then the above differential equation
has an analytic solution given by $u(x) = 1-(1-e^{-10})x-e^{-10x}$ (convince yourself that this is correct by inserting the
solution in the Poisson equation).  We will compare
our numerical solution with this analytic result in the next exercise. 

\item[(b)]
We can rewrite our matrix ${\bf A}$ in terms of one-dimensional vectors $a,b,c$  
of length $1:n$. 
Our linear equation reads
\begin{equation}
    {\bf A} = \left(\begin{array}{cccccc}
                           b_1& c_1 & 0 &\dots   & \dots &\dots \\
                           a_2 & b_2 & c_2 &\dots &\dots &\dots \\
                           & a_3 & b_3 & c_3 & \dots & \dots \\
                           & \dots   & \dots &\dots   &\dots & \dots \\
                           &   &  &a_{n-2}  &b_{n-1}& c_{n-1} \\
                           &    &  &   &a_n & b_n \\
                      \end{array} \right)\left(\begin{array}{c}
                           v_1\\
                           v_2\\
                           \dots \\
                          \dots  \\
                          \dots \\
                           v_n\\
                      \end{array} \right)
  =\left(\begin{array}{c}
                           \tilde{b}_1\\
                           \tilde{b}_2\\
                           \dots \\
                           \dots \\
                          \dots \\
                           \tilde{b}_n\\
                      \end{array} \right).
\end{equation}
A tridiagonal matrix is a special form of banded matrix where all the elements are zero except for 
those on and immediately above and below the leading diagonal.
The above tridiagonal system   can be written as
\begin{equation}
  a_iv_{i-1}+b_iv_i+c_iv_{i+1} = \tilde{b}_i,
\end{equation}
for $i=1,2,\dots,n$. 
The algorithm for solving this set of equations is rather simple and requires two steps only, a decomposition 
and forward substitution and finally a backward substitution. 


Your first task is to set up the algorithm for solving this set of linear equations.
Find also the precise number of floating point 
operations needed to solve the above equations. 
Compare this with standard Gaussian elimination and LU decomposition.

Then you should code the above algorithm and solve the problem for matrices of the size
$10\times 10$, $100\times 100$ and $1000\times 1000$.  That means that you choose $n=10$, $n=100$ and
$n=1000$ grid points. 

Compare your results (make plots) with the analytic results for the different number of grid points  in the 
interval $x\in(0,1)$.  The different number of grid points corresponds to different step lengths $h$.

\item[(c)]

Compute the relative error  in the data set $i=1,\dots, n$,by setting up 
\[
   \epsilon_i=log_{10}\left(\left|\frac{v_i-u_i}
                 {u_i}\right|\right),
\]
as function of $log_{10}(h)$ for the function values $u_i$ and $v_i$.
For each step length extract the max value of the relative error.  
Try to increase $n$ to $n=10000$ and $n=10^5$.  Make a table of the results and 
comment your results. 

\item[(d)]
Compare your results with those from the LU decomposition codes for the matrix of sizes $10\times 10$, $100\times 100$ and
$1000\times 1000$. Here you should use the library functions provided  on the webpage of the course.
Use for example the unix function {\em time} when you run your codes 
and compare the time usage between LU decomposition and  your
tridiagonal solver.   Make a table of the results and comment the differences
in execution time
How many floating point operations does the LU decomposition use to solve the set of linear equations?
Can you run the standard LU decomposition
for a matrix of the size $10^5\times 10^5$?
Comment your results.
\end{enumerate}


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