Numerical Analysis Using R

Graham W. Griffiths is a visiting professor in the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, London. His primary interests are in numerical methods and climate modelling, on which he has previously published four books. Griffiths was a founder of Special Analysis and Simulation Technology Ltd, and later vice president of operations and technology with AspenTech. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and was granted Freedom of the City of London in 1995.

• 1. ODE integration methods; 2. Stability analysis of ODE integrators; 3. Numerical solution of PDEs; 4. PDE stability analysis; 5. Dissipation and dispersion; 6. High resolution schemes; 7. Meshless methods; 8. Conservation laws; 9. Case study: analysis of golf ball flight; 10. Case study: Taylor–Sedov blast wave; 11. Case study: the carbon cycle.

'Graham W. Griffiths has produced an outstanding contribution to scientific computation, specifically, the numerical solution of a series of real-world ODE/PDE models. The format of each chapter, i.e. a detailed discussion of the origin of each model, a listing of the commented R routines with background for the numerical algorithms, and an analysis of the computed solutions, permits the reader to immediately understand and execute each model.' W. E. Schiesser, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania