Engineering Computations for Environmental Engineers - CVEN2702
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH1231 or MATH1241.
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
An introduction to the application of advanced analytical, statistical and numerical techniques to the solution of environmental engineering problems. Review of analytical techniques. Addressing issues of variability and uncertainty in civil and environmental engineering. Statistical and stochastic representation of stochastic systems. Applied data analysis. Decision making under uncertainty and risk. Bayesian decision theory. Single- and multi-objective optimisation. Linear and dynamic programming. Numerical solution of linear and non-linear equations; numerical integration, finite differences; differential equations, boundary value problems, and initial value problems.