Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Others

• General
• Tutorials
• CES Mechanics I quizzes
• CES Mechanics II examples
• Finite Elements for Fluids

• MATLAB@RWTH Aachen our campus licence :-),
  • Getting MATLAB via Asknet
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Mathworks the home of MATLAB,
• Octave a nice MATLAB clone; version 3 will have MATLAB-style plotting,
• Scilab a MATLAB-inspired scientific environment,
• Scipy scientific computation with Python,
• Matplot MATLAB-style plotting in Python.

• MATLAB and Octave Reference (German) from CATS,
• MATLAB Tutorial from Mathworks,
• MATLAB Introduction (German) from RWTH Aachen IRT,
• MATLAB-Learning (German, login required) from RWTH Aachen IRT,
• MATLAB Introduction (German) from University of Karlsruhe,
• MATLAB Introduction (German) from the University of Mainz,
• Matlab Primer from Stanford; unfortunately, the link is down at the moment.

• MATLAB Quiz 1 (German) on matrices
• MATLAB Quiz 2 (German) on functions
• MATLAB Quiz 3 (German) on plotting

our implementation of euler methods

• myforwardeuler.m forward resp. explicit euler,
• myimpliciteuler.m backward resp. implicit euler.

air damped oscillator (non-stiff system)

• ode_harmonic.m , jacobi_harmonic.m the model,
• harmonic_script.m with this script we compare forward and backward euler.

van-der-pol DGL (stiff system)

• vdp10.m , vdp10_jacobi.m not so stiff model,
• vdp100.m , vdp100_jacobi.m medium stiff model,
• vdp1000.m , vdp1000_jacobi.m stiff model,
• vdp_script.m comparing Runge-Kutta, BDF and Euler Methods.

lorenz attractor (chaotic system)

• lorenz.m the model,
• lorenz_script.m just play with the model.

3-body-problem (sun-earth-mars)

• ode3bodies.m the model,
• test3bodies.m comparing ode23 with ode45.