Numerics

Discretiazation of a PDE You might be wondering where such kind of matrix structures appear. A simple example is the discretization of PDE (partial differential equations) such as: $$ -\nabla u = f(x) $$ If we consider a discretization with finite differences you can approximate your u_i as: $$ u’’(x) \approx \frac{u_{i-1} - u_i - u_{i+1}}{h^2} $$. In a 2D setting you can apply the same discretization of course for the y-direction in the same manner....