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02643 Complex Variables and Applications
Danish title: Kompleks funktionsteori
Language:  Danish    ECTS-creditpoints:  5, External examination.   
Type:  , open university
Class schedule:   F2-B
Exam schedule:   F2-B (maj 30 2002)
Recommended semester:  1st - 4th semester
Scope and form:  Lectures and exercises
Evaluation:  Written exam
Examination:  13-scale
Previous course:  04124
Prerequisites:  Elementary functions, Taylor and Fourier series, curve integrals, functions of several variables, partial differentiation.
No credit points with:  C0141 / 01141 / C0304 / 04124
Aim:  To introduce complex variables as a tool for the physical and technical application in other courses.
Contents:  Analytic functions, exponential function, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions and their inverse functions, multivalued functions, Cauchy-Riemann's equations, Cauchy's integral theorem and integral formula. Harmonic functions. Taylor-, and Laurent-series. Calculus of Residues with applications. The principle of the argument. Conformal mapping and the Dirichlet problem. Elementary applications to Laplace's equation, heat conduction, electrostatics, and hydrodynamics.
Remarks:  Textbook: Niels Christian Albertsen, Peter Leth Christiansen og Søren Christiansen: Komplekse variable i fysikken, 6th edition, Polyteknisk forlag.
Contact:  Søren Christiansen, building 305, (+45) 4525 3021, sc@imm.dtu.dk
Department: 002 Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Course URL:  http://www.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02643
Keywords:  analytic functions, multivalued functions, calculus of residues, conformal mapping, plane field theory
Updated:  15-05-2001